User talk:Aks
Welcome to Rosetta Code! (And nice use of the mylang template, BTW...) You can visit my userpage to see who I am, but I'm not particularly visible these days; Most of my involvement is now related to the underlying server and software. I notice you're familiar with PDP and UNIVAC assembler. I haven't learned much about these; I'd love to see how their ISAs and VMs relate to more recent and familiar ones, but I don't think we yet have many tasks suitable for such comparisons. --Michael Mol 09:15, 15 September 2009 (UTC)
rs Unix command?
Hi. Could you tell me where I could find info on the rs Unix command used in the column aligner task? Is it a standard Unix command? Thanks. --Paddy3118 23:43, 7 February 2010 (UTC)
- Thanks. That's great. I didn't know the rs command, and my previous googling returned nothing, as well as rs not being found on my Cygwin Unix emulation installation.
- P.S: I searched for a section of the man page text and came up with links like this and this. Now I have the links, it would be OK to remove the actual man page from your talk page if it is cluttering. Thanks again - I didn't know about rs for reshape. --Paddy3118 04:43, 8 February 2010 (UTC)
- Thanks. That's great. I didn't know the rs command, and my previous googling returned nothing, as well as rs not being found on my Cygwin Unix emulation installation.
Machinations behind the user page
When you use the mylang template, the text you use to identify the language automatically puts your username as part of a MediaWiki category. Unfortunately, MediaWiki doesn't have a mechanism for aliasing categories, so I can't tell it "hey, PL/I and PL/1 are the same thing". As a result, if you have PL/I in the mylang template, you wind up in Category:PL/I User, whereas if you have PL/1 in the mylang template, you wind up in Category:PL/1 User. It's a rather annoying software limitation that won't be fixed until someone has time to write a patch. I understand your frustrations. --Michael Mol 20:19, 17 February 2010 (UTC)
- In any case, we are following the naming conventions used by Wikipedia. See wp:PL/I. --IanOsgood 22:20, 17 February 2010 (UTC)
This makes perfect sense -- having an automaton tracking down language references. Thanks for the explanation. --Aks 21:01, 19 February 2010 (UTC)