There's also this paper by Alan Kay that talks about the power of spreadsheets: https://worrydream.com/refs/Kay_1984_-_Computer_Software.pdf > The dynamic spreadsheet is a good example of such a tissuelike superobject.…
Yeah, I've been working on Noticias, which is an implementation of NeWS in Typescript targeting the browser. Initially, I used HTML5 Canvas to draw, but I'm now in the process of switching over to SVG. Once I have demos…
This article seems like a nice overview of the pros and cons of the Icon expression evaluation system: https://tratt.net/laurie/research/pubs/html/tratt__experienc...
Kragen, how much of what you said here about Forth also applies to PostScript, do you think? I have been tinkering with PostScript but not Forth, I grok that PostScript is a lot closer to LISP. A lot of people (without…
With PostScript being one of the few successful "mobile code" systems out there, I wonder if PSON will do better than JSON by allowing { procedures }. With the explicit dictionary stack, couldn't that be used to sandbox…
I found some slides: https://memcpy.io/files/2016-09-23/xdc-2016-fast_ui_draw.pdf
What did you do to learn Postscript? What sort of programs did you write in PS to practice?
Hey Mikel, are the Sk8 sources/binaries anywhere? Is it possible to run Sk8 nowadays if one has access to hardware running classic MacOS?
libgdiplus is fairly stable - you can find use the latest zip from github if you need a source release: https://github.com/mono/libgdiplus/commit/3ddf7ff28e0876dc39...
In that case, why don't you just put 'throws Exception' on all your methods?
There's also this paper by Alan Kay that talks about the power of spreadsheets: https://worrydream.com/refs/Kay_1984_-_Computer_Software.pdf > The dynamic spreadsheet is a good example of such a tissuelike superobject.…
Yeah, I've been working on Noticias, which is an implementation of NeWS in Typescript targeting the browser. Initially, I used HTML5 Canvas to draw, but I'm now in the process of switching over to SVG. Once I have demos…
This article seems like a nice overview of the pros and cons of the Icon expression evaluation system: https://tratt.net/laurie/research/pubs/html/tratt__experienc...
Kragen, how much of what you said here about Forth also applies to PostScript, do you think? I have been tinkering with PostScript but not Forth, I grok that PostScript is a lot closer to LISP. A lot of people (without…
With PostScript being one of the few successful "mobile code" systems out there, I wonder if PSON will do better than JSON by allowing { procedures }. With the explicit dictionary stack, couldn't that be used to sandbox…
I found some slides: https://memcpy.io/files/2016-09-23/xdc-2016-fast_ui_draw.pdf
What did you do to learn Postscript? What sort of programs did you write in PS to practice?
Hey Mikel, are the Sk8 sources/binaries anywhere? Is it possible to run Sk8 nowadays if one has access to hardware running classic MacOS?
libgdiplus is fairly stable - you can find use the latest zip from github if you need a source release: https://github.com/mono/libgdiplus/commit/3ddf7ff28e0876dc39...
In that case, why don't you just put 'throws Exception' on all your methods?