hougaard

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Comment · 22 days ago

Interesting, hacker News has truly become the new slashdot :)

Comment · 1 month ago

Drove past the club yesterday, the sign is still up with the lake joke.

Comment · 2 months ago

Tried it (the full version, using 120 GB RAM), wasn't impressed, gave it some defective code, and asked it to fix all errors. It kept looping around and around and digging itself deeper and deeper into a rabbit hole; eventually, it got into a "reasoning" discussion about whether a custom compiler was used that supported the wrong syntax...

Comment · 9 months ago

Because the "UX" of Windows sucks, Microsoft will switch the "Kernel" to Linux?

I don't get the argument. There are parts of Windows I don't like, so I have chosen a 3rd-party (often open-source) replacement. The exact same process as I do on Linux. I don't see why I have to switch to Linux to have that freedom.

(and to be honest, I don't care where the taskbar is)

Comment · 1 year ago

Fun, did that 8 years ago with the original Hololens https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E6cBX4t2kX0

Comment · 2 years ago

Sounds like an llm task.

Comment · 2 years ago

How about rendering with print specific CSS to images/pdf ?

Comment · 2 years ago

What warez dump?

Comment · 2 years ago

Came here to say the same, kinda misleading :)

Comment · 3 years ago

Been using it for a while, like it :)

Comment · 3 years ago

Just reviewed by Adrian: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bak-MePFsJ0

Comment · 3 years ago

Pointless with a 16:9 ratio display :(

Comment · 3 years ago

I program in Pascal every day, and I still love it.

Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central has a built-in development environment with a language called AL. AL is a variant of Pascal.

A bit of background, Pascal was very popular in Denmark in the 80'ties and 90'ties (Turbo Pascal was created by a Dane, Anders Hejlsberg, later Delphi, c# and TypeScript fame). Business Central was a Danish piece of software created for IBM before Microsoft acquired it, so choosing Pascal as the base language was a very natural thing.

I got my first job because IBM needed Pascal developers for this new accounting system they got and I already knew Turbo Pascal.

Today the AL compiler is built on Roslyn (same as the c# compiler) and have a fully capable language server supporting all the fancy intellisence stuff in VS Code, also supported by GitHub CoPilot.

p.s. I even created my own AL compiler, written in AL https://www.hougaard.com/toolbox

Comment · 3 years ago

Lo and Hi tom samples seem to be switched?

Comment · 4 years ago

I wrote a fair amount of Modula-2 back in the mid 90'ties. Used the TopSpeed Modula-2 compiler and produced both DOS and OS/2 executables from the same source code.