pointfree
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Comment · 7 years ago
Comment · 7 years ago
> 1. Is it possible to write complex, modern applications (things like browsers, photo editors, etc. — things that would take millions of lines of Java or JS) using this style of programming?
If it were a complex application it wouldn't be very forthy would it? Factor the problem instead of trying to factor a preconceived solution.
> 2. What is “sourceless programming”? Where is a good place to learn more about it?
Sourceless programming was used in Okad a vlsi design tool written by Chuck Moore.
http://www.ultratechnology.com/mofe16.htm
Brad Nelson also experimented with sourceless forth:
https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1wL2eqf7eHGEybsK0C4MU...
Comment · 7 years ago
> Portability is not important. Portability is not possible. Real applications are closely coupled to hardware. Change the platform and all the code changes. If it didn't, you wouldn't have changed the platform.
Comment · 7 years ago
"Over the Shoulder 1 - Text Preprocessing in Forth" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mvrE2ZGe-rs - Sam Falvo demonstrates writing a blog engine in Forth.
Comment · 7 years ago
Most languages that aim to be minimal bake in a minimal syntax, but without implicit parameter passing, composability is not going to be extensible.
Comment · 9 years ago
> Anarchism is a political ideology that's never met the real world, like a lot of ideologies on HN and elsewhere. This might convince the random Internet reader, but it's not going to convince anyone who has studied the topic.
Although there have been some widespread and fairly comprehensive implementations of anarchism, namely the Makhnovists in the Ukraine and the Spanish Revolution in Catalonia, Aragon, Andalusia, and some parts of the Valencian Community, anarchism is more of a political tension "from where you are standing right now" than an attempt to conquer a territory to establish anarchism. That should follow from the name itself.
https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/alfredo-m-bonanno-th...
The Situationist movement had some enduring effect on French culture from the first-person perspective. (Situationism is not anarchist, but it is libertarian and communist). The Spanish revolution less so, because it was followed by General Franco's rule.
Comment · 9 years ago
With all due respect I would have liked if the hackernews moderators had kept my original headline "An Anarchist Critique of Democracy by Moxie Marlinspike (Signal SMS), Windy Hart"
I thought this article/transcript was of interest to hackernews in a large part due to one of the two authors being the author of the Open Whisper Systems Signal SMS app.
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCVMrX6BlNjIeGfX0QcBobGg