One of the best labs I ever did in university (this was circa 1970), was to create an Initial Program Load (bootstrap) program for a virtual IBM System/360, which copied punch cards, using no OS assistance. (Modern…
Tk without Tcl?
Burgess reputedly disliked the American edition's inclusion of a glossary. I'm in partial agreement with that.The right way to read it is to let the language flow over you, and you gradually start making sense of it.…
I second the recommmendation, for these two systems with a caveat. MIT Scheme has not been made to run on Apple Silicon, though with a few tricks, the amd64 version is usable on a modern Mac (this will presumably go…
I always got a chuckle when Stargate went meta. They had a planet called Kelowna (a real BC city) and a country called Langara (I was for a time a faculty member at Langara College). At one point, they visit an Oregon…
Tectonic would be more convincing if the authors wrote their documentation in LaTeX, rather than Markdown (and I do know about Pandoc).
I did that kind of thing when I first started using C (my attitude then was that C was fine, but it should have looked more like BCPL). I stopped after a short time.
That could well be, the article is still wrong.
I was puzzled by this claim, too. I think that the article is wrong, and that the code is written in HAL/S, a NASA-only language that sort of started off as a preprocessor to Fortran, though it has some PL/I-like…
I have a Shinobi, and like it, but I recently got an HHKB Studio w, and really like it too.
So who became Xerox? (i.e., brilliant ideas, thrown away at the corporate level)
Versioned files existed in Tenex, developed by Bolt Beranek and Newman in the early 1970s; version numbering was based on a similar feature in MIT's Incompatible Timesharing System. DEC's variant of Tenex was eventually…
This is great...I would encourage you to add the ability for users to offer new languages. I noticed that Modula-2, PL/I, Trac Language, ALGOL 60, ALGOL68, and Joss/Focal could be added. (ALGOL 60 would be a challenge,…
Actually, variations on M-expressions have been created many times in the Lisp world. (Look what you can do with macros!) So far, none of them has caught on. The latest attempt for Scheme is SRFI-266, which creates a…
I'm on a convertible as I read this comments thread; I'm typing this comment on the keyboard, and scrolling the comments via the touchscreen. I have never bought the argument that there should be one modality of input…
Maybe replace clicky keyswitches with silent ones.
“There are two novels that can change a bookish fourteen-year old’s life: The Lord of the Rings and Atlas Shrugged. One is a childish fantasy that often engenders a lifelong obsession with its unbelievable heroes,…
C was following PL/I.
And just to point out that there is WinCompose, for Windows, and a somewhat janky but usable solution using Karabiner Elements and macos-compose for Mac.
I was present at the IFIP 1978 conference in Toronto where Dijkstra announced that personal computing was a dead end because most people don't know how to program. There's an irony about the design of ALGOL 68. It was…
I agree with you. Edlin forever!!!
In the 1970s, I temporarily relocated from Vancouver to Boston. A few days after I arrived, someone said, “After work, I'm going to take the T [subway] to BC.” I was awed by the concept of a continental mass-transit…
Please define “corrupt”.
There once was a country named Czechoslovakia.
With all due respect to Wirth, P-Code did not originate in a vacuum. Martin Richards's BCPL compiler, dating from the late 1960s, targeted a hypothetical OCode machine. Furthermore, although there were backends for this…
One of the best labs I ever did in university (this was circa 1970), was to create an Initial Program Load (bootstrap) program for a virtual IBM System/360, which copied punch cards, using no OS assistance. (Modern…
Tk without Tcl?
Burgess reputedly disliked the American edition's inclusion of a glossary. I'm in partial agreement with that.The right way to read it is to let the language flow over you, and you gradually start making sense of it.…
I second the recommmendation, for these two systems with a caveat. MIT Scheme has not been made to run on Apple Silicon, though with a few tricks, the amd64 version is usable on a modern Mac (this will presumably go…
I always got a chuckle when Stargate went meta. They had a planet called Kelowna (a real BC city) and a country called Langara (I was for a time a faculty member at Langara College). At one point, they visit an Oregon…
Tectonic would be more convincing if the authors wrote their documentation in LaTeX, rather than Markdown (and I do know about Pandoc).
I did that kind of thing when I first started using C (my attitude then was that C was fine, but it should have looked more like BCPL). I stopped after a short time.
That could well be, the article is still wrong.
I was puzzled by this claim, too. I think that the article is wrong, and that the code is written in HAL/S, a NASA-only language that sort of started off as a preprocessor to Fortran, though it has some PL/I-like…
I have a Shinobi, and like it, but I recently got an HHKB Studio w, and really like it too.
So who became Xerox? (i.e., brilliant ideas, thrown away at the corporate level)
Versioned files existed in Tenex, developed by Bolt Beranek and Newman in the early 1970s; version numbering was based on a similar feature in MIT's Incompatible Timesharing System. DEC's variant of Tenex was eventually…
This is great...I would encourage you to add the ability for users to offer new languages. I noticed that Modula-2, PL/I, Trac Language, ALGOL 60, ALGOL68, and Joss/Focal could be added. (ALGOL 60 would be a challenge,…
Actually, variations on M-expressions have been created many times in the Lisp world. (Look what you can do with macros!) So far, none of them has caught on. The latest attempt for Scheme is SRFI-266, which creates a…
I'm on a convertible as I read this comments thread; I'm typing this comment on the keyboard, and scrolling the comments via the touchscreen. I have never bought the argument that there should be one modality of input…
Maybe replace clicky keyswitches with silent ones.
“There are two novels that can change a bookish fourteen-year old’s life: The Lord of the Rings and Atlas Shrugged. One is a childish fantasy that often engenders a lifelong obsession with its unbelievable heroes,…
C was following PL/I.
And just to point out that there is WinCompose, for Windows, and a somewhat janky but usable solution using Karabiner Elements and macos-compose for Mac.
I was present at the IFIP 1978 conference in Toronto where Dijkstra announced that personal computing was a dead end because most people don't know how to program. There's an irony about the design of ALGOL 68. It was…
I agree with you. Edlin forever!!!
In the 1970s, I temporarily relocated from Vancouver to Boston. A few days after I arrived, someone said, “After work, I'm going to take the T [subway] to BC.” I was awed by the concept of a continental mass-transit…
Please define “corrupt”.
There once was a country named Czechoslovakia.
With all due respect to Wirth, P-Code did not originate in a vacuum. Martin Richards's BCPL compiler, dating from the late 1960s, targeted a hypothetical OCode machine. Furthermore, although there were backends for this…