Daisy Daisy, give me your answer do

[Xah Lee]

there is a MacPerl program posted in 1998 that uses Mac's speech synth
to sing Daisy Bell.
See:

http://bumppo.net/lists/macperl/1998/11/msg00412.html

can anyone modify it so it runs out of the box on today's OS X?

PS i'm posting this also in python and lisp group, i hope it'd be some
general interest. For some background of this song, see
http://xahlee.org/Periodic_dosage_dir/sanga_pemci/daisy_bell.html

i'm interested in getting versions that can sing the song in Windows,
Mac, Linux using whatever speech synth each OS may provide. Thanks.

Xah
(e-mail address removed)
∑ http://xahlee.org/

 

[Michael Goettsche]

there is a MacPerl program posted in 1998 that uses Mac's speech synth
to sing Daisy Bell.
See:

http://bumppo.net/lists/macperl/1998/11/msg00412.html

can anyone modify it so it runs out of the box on today's OS X?

PS i'm posting this also in python and lisp group, i hope it'd be some
general interest. For some background of this song, see
http://xahlee.org/Periodic_dosage_dir/sanga_pemci/daisy_bell.html

i'm interested in getting versions that can sing the song in Windows,
Mac, Linux using whatever speech synth each OS may provide. Thanks.

Xah
(e-mail address removed)
∑ http://xahlee.org/

You're asking "tech geekers" and "morons" to do this job? Isn't that a task
for somebody more professional like you?

 

[Guest]

Leave Xah Lee alone, he's a troll, he got no interested in doing
anything but to provoke people on usenet.

 

[Xah Lee]

Dear Michael Goettsche,

why don't you lead the pack to be on-topic for a change, huh?

Xah

 

[Sam]

Dear Michael Goettsche,

why don't you lead the pack to be on-topic for a change, huh?

Why don't you:

1. Learn how to properly format messages for posting to Usenet, so that
your scribblings don't read like stream-of-consciousness babbling
(see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Top-posting).

2. Explain why such an important and famous ubergeek like yourself (judging
by your web site) has to beg others to write code for him.

3. Make sure the door handle doesn't hit your ass on the way out.



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[James Stroud]

Why don't you:

1. Learn how to properly format messages for posting to Usenet, so that
your scribblings don't read like stream-of-consciousness babbling
(see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Top-posting).

Sam:

His scribblings *are* babbling, as I am sure you are quite aware. (Your
predisposition for congeniality is showing through here.) Formatting would
not help...unless, of course, he marks it up with "Rich Backspace
Formatting" (RBF). Ideally, he would backspace once for every character.

James

--
James Stroud
UCLA-DOE Institute for Genomics and Proteomics
Box 951570
Los Angeles, CA 90095

http://www.jamesstroud.com/

 

[Michael Goettsche]

Dear Michael Goettsche,

why don't you lead the pack to be on-topic for a change, huh?

Xah

Because you are a moron. Unsubscribe from this list please and never come
back.

 

[Martin P. Hellwig]

Michael Goettsche wrote:

You're asking "tech geekers" and "morons" to do this job? Isn't that a task
for somebody more professional like you?

I think he's doing a shot to the position of open-source leader, judging
on the replies he has got till so far, that shot was not really
effective. In dutch we have a saying for these kind of people, it goes
like this: "12 ambachten, 13 ongelukken".

 

[Sherm Pendley]

there is a MacPerl program posted in 1998 that uses Mac's speech synth
to sing Daisy Bell.
See:

http://bumppo.net/lists/macperl/1998/11/msg00412.html

can anyone modify it so it runs out of the box on today's OS X?

For pre-Tiger OS versions you'll need to install the Mac::Carbon module from
CPAN, if you haven't done so already. Tiger ships with it pre-installed.

Aside from that, only trivial modification are needed to update the script.
Just Replace #!perl with #!/usr/bin/perl, and remove the last line, which
calls MacPerl::Quit().

sherm--