pedrow
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Comment · 3 years ago
I had a look at the repo in https://sourceforge.net/p/recoil/code/ci/master/tree/ - I think the meat of it is a giant file called 'recoil.fu' (22481 lines long)
[edit] it is written in the 'Fusion Language' https://github.com/fusionlanguage/fut (and not https://gaelduval.com/introducing-fusion-the-ultimate-progra... !) - there's a playground at http://fusion-lang.org/ . I'd never heard of it before but seems a bit like Haxe perhaps?
Comment · 3 years ago
I believe they were based on Miranda[0] (1985) but they have a longer history than that, maybe under a different name.
[0]:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miranda_(programming_language)...
Comment · 3 years ago
I fondly remember using sites like this to download stuff (ok, apogee games mostly!) in the 1990s. I could FTP to the university VAX which would exceed my 'soft quota' of disk space every time, then I'd have to get the files onto a floppy and delete them before my account locked up.
Does anyone know if the SunSites are still mirrored anywhere? There used to be a dir called 'programming' full of weird and whacky languages which I'd love to see again. For example there was one called ALLOY by Thanasis Mitsolides. His PhD is still available on the internet but the code in usable format is not, as far as I can see.
Comment · 3 years ago
I think https://wiki.c2.com/?PlsLanguage is informative. PL/S was more suitable for writing low-level code due to some extra options and it didn't need a full runtime environment. Wikipedia suggests IBM didn't (initially) release it because it meant that only they could alter the operating system, and also to avoid handing any advantage to their competitors.
Comment · 3 years ago
For comparison FreeRTOS[0] is, at minimum, about 9000 LOC[1] at least according to the article (I don't know when it was written), so 2000 lines is indeed pretty small.
[0]: https://www.freertos.org/ [1]: https://aosabook.org/en/v2/freertos.html
Comment · 3 years ago
Are there, or have there been, devices where one might have seen Inferno running 'in the wild' e.g. digital signs, PoS terminals etc.?
Comment · 3 years ago
Also you need a template to drop over the function keys. How would that work on a modern keyboard!?
https://cdn.hackaday.io/files/1604126863067008/UI__3_WordPer...
Comment · 3 years ago
I have an OpenBSD install in a VM for the reason cited by ninjin:
> Personally, a different userland and directory structure usually also beats out Linux-isms.
I just upgraded from 7.2 with sysupgrade then pkg_add -u and it worked perfectly without any intervention from me. In the past I remember it needing a bit of tweaking and finger-crossing. Bravo OpenBSD!
Comment · 3 years ago
This must be really disappointing for you - I think most people would agree you didn't break the 'spirit' of the rules even if you did maybe break the letter of the rules.
It would be great if you could re-draft that clause in a way which makes sense, and then get back to your teacher to see if she can influence the competition organisers. That way, next year's competition will be just a little fairer.
Comment · 3 years ago
Imagination Technology's Creator Ci20 was a MIPS board for hackers released in 2014. Despite the subsequent decline of MIPS, people are still improving Linux support for this board.
Comment · 3 years ago
I thought this was an enjoyable and informative article but [0]
> As a personal comparison, my total lifetime output ... has been... [78 million words] And, yes, I’ll train a bot from all of that.
for non-Wolfram fans - take cover there is a potentially infinite future supply!
[0]: https://writings.stephenwolfram.com/2023/02/what-is-chatgpt-... (paragraph 2)
Comment · 3 years ago
There was a thing about tying shoelaces a few years back, for example this from the BBC [1]. Apparently I was doing it wrong but anyway I prefer the extra back exercise I get from bending down to retie.
[0]: https://www.bobnewell.net/publish/35years/poetry.html [1]: https://github.com/cybniv/poetry.el