Re: bison and yacc. It came from the dragon book which for forever was the way to learn to write languages.
Whoa, I didn't know about this. Looks pretty new. Win32 in a browser https://github.com/lqs/retrotick
The win32 api is extremely well documented, still supported and very stable. With tons of working examples to do pretty much everything with.
As an added bonus, since win32 is so old. AI is quite strong at generating code for it, I have even had success with qwen 3.5 1.5B parameters with win32 and opengl 1.1
Considering you can use 500 kilobyte distro of tcc that can self compile to build win32 apps and those versions will very easily run on wine. I think it is a valid point and a strategy I have used for sometime. Since…
I have one, this isn't true. The wattage of a 5070 is about 300. The spark entire unit runs at 200 watts max. In reality it runs like a rtx 5060 with lots of vram. Very good for training, okay for inferencing if you are…
This was also when most of these machines were not online. Security wasn't as much of a concern.
Python pdftools to convert to images and tesseract to ocr them to text files. Fast free and can run on CPU.
TCC is less than a meg to download supports win32 very well and as an added bonus created executables run fine under linux wine.
TCC supports win32 and is less than a meg download and as an added bonus supports linux very well thanks to wine.
I don't understand, just use scite editor with tcc. About a couple of megs download, no install required and your apps will run on everything from win 98 to linux with wine. And if the answer is c++ support then you get…
I was thinking that this looks a lot like prolog or even make with rewrite terms
Literate programming is alive and well in 2025. https://leo-editor.github.io/leo-editor/ https://kaleguy.github.io/leovue/#/t/2 https://ganelson.github.io/inweb/inweb/index.html Inform 7 is arguably one of the largest…
I personally think IDE makes for worse programmers vs just using a text editor.
Why not just use a verifiable subset of C? https://compcert.org/compcert-C.html
Imperial vs Metric is a hard requirement not a convention or formatting. I have a co-worker who wants everything to be a one liner, doesn't like if/else statements, thinks exception handling is bad and will fail a code…
All source code is self documenting, source code is for developers to read. Computer languages are a human readable version of what the compiler executes and is for the developers, not the compilers benefit. As a…
I used to do this with Virtual Box running locally. I found the performance of the windows x client was superior to trying to use x directly in the virtual machine. I wish the protocol supported audio.
I am pretty sure logo is mostly a lisp without parenthesis. I find it a lot more readable than most lisp dialects. I am not sure why it never caught on.
https://atariage.com/store/index.php?l=product_detail&p=949 http://8bitworkshop.com/v3.1.0/?=&platform=vcs&file=examples... https://archive.org/details/StellaProgrammersGuide There is also batari basic, not sure how…
The universe is aging at an alarming rate.
I am so happy to see Charles is still releasing new versions. Has a lot of interesting designs on functional programming using the stack. You can see the inspirations from joy and the portable virtual machine is well…
Copyrighting code never made sense to me. We already have patents for intellectual property. If two people use the same RFC or Whitepaper for an algorithm in the same language, they will probably name the variables…
I avoid GPL projects because I am a software developer and the idea of the project dictating how I can release my own source is a big FU to me. If I can find software that is licensed with a non restrictive license I…
From my understanding GPL originated because Stallman was upset about a version of Emacs he was working on at school (MIT Licensed). The person he was working on it with took the source code and started a commercial…
Re: bison and yacc. It came from the dragon book which for forever was the way to learn to write languages.
Whoa, I didn't know about this. Looks pretty new. Win32 in a browser https://github.com/lqs/retrotick
The win32 api is extremely well documented, still supported and very stable. With tons of working examples to do pretty much everything with.
As an added bonus, since win32 is so old. AI is quite strong at generating code for it, I have even had success with qwen 3.5 1.5B parameters with win32 and opengl 1.1
Considering you can use 500 kilobyte distro of tcc that can self compile to build win32 apps and those versions will very easily run on wine. I think it is a valid point and a strategy I have used for sometime. Since…
I have one, this isn't true. The wattage of a 5070 is about 300. The spark entire unit runs at 200 watts max. In reality it runs like a rtx 5060 with lots of vram. Very good for training, okay for inferencing if you are…
This was also when most of these machines were not online. Security wasn't as much of a concern.
Python pdftools to convert to images and tesseract to ocr them to text files. Fast free and can run on CPU.
TCC is less than a meg to download supports win32 very well and as an added bonus created executables run fine under linux wine.
TCC supports win32 and is less than a meg download and as an added bonus supports linux very well thanks to wine.
I don't understand, just use scite editor with tcc. About a couple of megs download, no install required and your apps will run on everything from win 98 to linux with wine. And if the answer is c++ support then you get…
I was thinking that this looks a lot like prolog or even make with rewrite terms
Literate programming is alive and well in 2025. https://leo-editor.github.io/leo-editor/ https://kaleguy.github.io/leovue/#/t/2 https://ganelson.github.io/inweb/inweb/index.html Inform 7 is arguably one of the largest…
I personally think IDE makes for worse programmers vs just using a text editor.
Why not just use a verifiable subset of C? https://compcert.org/compcert-C.html
Imperial vs Metric is a hard requirement not a convention or formatting. I have a co-worker who wants everything to be a one liner, doesn't like if/else statements, thinks exception handling is bad and will fail a code…
All source code is self documenting, source code is for developers to read. Computer languages are a human readable version of what the compiler executes and is for the developers, not the compilers benefit. As a…
I used to do this with Virtual Box running locally. I found the performance of the windows x client was superior to trying to use x directly in the virtual machine. I wish the protocol supported audio.
I am pretty sure logo is mostly a lisp without parenthesis. I find it a lot more readable than most lisp dialects. I am not sure why it never caught on.
https://atariage.com/store/index.php?l=product_detail&p=949 http://8bitworkshop.com/v3.1.0/?=&platform=vcs&file=examples... https://archive.org/details/StellaProgrammersGuide There is also batari basic, not sure how…
The universe is aging at an alarming rate.
I am so happy to see Charles is still releasing new versions. Has a lot of interesting designs on functional programming using the stack. You can see the inspirations from joy and the portable virtual machine is well…
Copyrighting code never made sense to me. We already have patents for intellectual property. If two people use the same RFC or Whitepaper for an algorithm in the same language, they will probably name the variables…
I avoid GPL projects because I am a software developer and the idea of the project dictating how I can release my own source is a big FU to me. If I can find software that is licensed with a non restrictive license I…
From my understanding GPL originated because Stallman was upset about a version of Emacs he was working on at school (MIT Licensed). The person he was working on it with took the source code and started a commercial…