ok. Abstract of the current situation:
my PYG ("progetto yayo-giapponario", =yayo-japanary project) is temporarily suspended since some weeks now for lack of working software tools. Nothing to worry about anyway. I just need to write a fast code to manage the kanji dictionary files. Being PHP the only programing language that I know (sorta), I'm forced to learn a new one (php is ok for websites, but about data management a three-toed sloths is faster).
After some days spent searching for info I decided to try with the "common lisp" (the other choice was forth, but lisp seems to be closer to php, and this will probably help me a lot). Lisp seems to be powerful, versatile and easy enough from my php-point of view (I'll know for sure only when I'll have played with it bit more). It can also be used for interpreted scripts as well as to compile executable files.
I admit I got some troubles finding an implementation of the language. There are many on the net, but a half of them are commercial and come in a demo version with reduced functionality, and only a few of the others are mature/stable versions. And nether commercial nor free considers people like me with an old computer/OS and with a crappy connection: all the implementation are elephants 8mb atleast big. In dialup with an average speed of 4,5Kb/sec (just because I use pc during the night, otherwise it'd be 3,5! :P) it takes round 45 minutes to download the archive. And once I get it, if it doesn't works with my OS or something, I have to restart from scratch. A friend on IRC sent me a scheme (=another lisp dialect) interpreter which is around 35Kb. How comes that common lisp requires at least 8mb? boh..
Anyway I finally found clisp which has anything I need. Well, having known that readline version of the executable doesn't work on my win98 --yes, I still use win98! why? is it a problem? :P-- I would have avoided to download it twice, but at least now also the developers know it! I'm sorry for having bothered them, but if they write on the sourceforge page that it's a mature/stable software working on all windows versions starting from win98, how can I know that on win98 readline doesn't work?! >xP). The interpreter without readline sucks but it works and it's enough (do I have other choices? >:P).
Sadly I'm also busy doing some other things, and this will delay PYG even more. :/ Anyway I finally managed to get a working kanji-dictionary page even without html tables, using all the power(aaahahahah! *cough*) of CSS(ucks).. (I know, I said I was resigned about this, but it was a personal question between me and the stylesheet: my PC must ALWAYS do what I want, not the opposite! :P)
And anyway there's not so more left to do to have the dictionary working, so once the map extractor software will be ready to manage the base dictionary file (knjidic2.xml), I'll be probably ready (for site upload).
Another reason for the delay is that this thursday I'm going to hospital for a little sorgery thing. Nothing to worry about (...they say. sadly I'm used to suffer and faint even for a blood exam.. I know, I'll die suffering the pain of hell.. sigh.. x' | ). I'll be knockout for a week at least..
Last note: why the heck the italian postal service keeps wasting time and resources selling stuff that I can buy in other places, instead of provide an affordable postal service? They're now also a mobile phone service provider with sim and all. It's not bad, ok, but it's a month yet I'm waiting a parcel from another country! And I got confirmation from their postal offices, that it leaved that country the 6th of november.. Where's my parcel? WHEREEES IT?!? Take care of my parcel instead of wasting time selling books and stuff, damnmn!! uff.. >x'/
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