billytrend
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Comment · 1 year ago
Did they photoshop the screenshot from https://github.blog/changelog/2025-05-19-github-models-built... ? Other than the model id, it’s identical.
Comment · 3 years ago
The person you’re talking about is my grandpa, Robin Butler. He has some great stories! Cool to see him mentioned on hacker news
Comment · 9 years ago
Aha that's probably wishful thinking I'm afraid. The language seemed very old fashioned to me (features like being able to choose the first index of an array) but I can appreciate it was good for its time.
I wrote my own error messages which were hopefully a bit more useful than that :)
Comment · 9 years ago
RE S-Algol, it actually stands for St Andrews Algol. I developed a javascript transpiler as my final year project (2016) which is incomplete but there are some working examples here: https://goo.gl/TjbwML .
I found the project fascinating. Of course this a completely different language to Idris, the only real relation is that it was also developed in St Andrews.
Comment · 12 years ago
Tried to make something like this a while ago[1] but the Eliza idea is a good one. Must be our agricultural East Anglian sense of humour. Wonder how many other farmyard animals could be turned into software as a service?