Happy things thread!

[Travis B.]

I have a working memory allocator I have written by myself so that my Forth implementation no longer has to use malloc() for user-level allocation (it still uses malloc() for initially allocating the Forth memory space, even though I could easily change that to use mmap())!

[Travis B.]

I now have a working map and a working intmap (a map from integers to values, which is faster than a normal map because it does not require evaluating hash functions) for my Forth.

[mèþru]

I'm graduating from school today.
My therapist gave me as a graduation present the latest edition of the Cambridge Encyclopedia of Language.
It's one of the best gifts I ever got I'm so happy

[Vijay]

Congratulations, and I'm glad you're so happy!

[Travis B.]

I now have backtraces in my Forth implementation, and with them I have fixed a troublesome bug that was affecting concurrent IO. Next thing up: adding interrupts to the Forth implementation.

[Travis B.]

Now my Forth implementation supports trapping segfaults, divide by zero, illegal instructions, and bus error, and cleanly displays a backtrace and continues execution without crashing (in most cases at least).

[Raphael]

This week, I discovered the joys of mixing a little bit of pure lemon juice and a lot of mineral water. For some reason, I had never gotten that idea in my life before. This is good.

[MacAnDàil]

I got 19 out of 20 on my master's thesis on the lexicon of Réunion Créole of Malagasy origin.

[alynnidalar]

Very nice!

[Whimemsz]

I got 19 out of 20 on my master's thesis on the lexicon of Réunion Créole of Malagasy origin.

Congrats!

[Raphael]

Congratulations!

[MacAnDàil]

Thanks guys!

[Vijay]

Is there a word of Malagasy origin in Réunion Créole for expressing praise?

[MacAnDàil]

Is there a word of Malagasy origin in Réunion Créole for expressing praise?

No, it would be interesting and appropriate of course but, as I mention in the thesis, the malagasy loans amount to roughly 2% of the overall vocabulary so most things don't have words of malagasy origin for them. I did consider saying Mèrsi! Misaotra ! Marahaba ! which would have been comprehensible largely due to the context.

[Raholeun]

I got 19 out of 20 on my master's thesis on the lexicon of Réunion Créole of Malagasy origin.

Care to share?

[mèþru]

Congratulations!

[MacAnDàil]

I got 19 out of 20 on my master's thesis on the lexicon of Réunion Créole of Malagasy origin.

Care to share?

Most certainly! However, I still have a final draft to submit so I will share in about 3 or 4 weeks.

[Linguoboy]

I was shopping at my local liquor store for something to take to a party later and found a bottle of rosolio. I'd read about this years ago but had never seen it for sale in the USA before. I'm looking forward to trying it this weekend.

[Raholeun]

I am really quite happy to have put the first paper on Sataw online, Feels good, even though I am tripping over spelling and syntax errors re-reading it.

[dhok]

I passed my German exam and admission to the Master's in comparative IE and historical linguistics at Vienna is now a shoe-in.