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That's an interesting anecdote - so did the Finnish army actually use your Pascal compiler? And when you say you were ordered to write a manual for it, where yo
by webmobdev 6y ago
That's an interesting anecdote - so did the Finnish army actually use your Pascal compiler? And when you say you were ordered to write a manual for it, where you in the Finnish army at that time?
- timonoko 6y agoI was in the University Telecom Lab, but employed by the army in a project to specify a portable texting device, which eventually become the well-known Finnish Army "Kyber"-radiotermimal. I specified the operating system of this non-existing device in my own nokoPascal. This was the time I was playing with my symbolic stack machine, a Forth of sort, but wierd metacharacters which allowed direct execution of "(+ 1 2)" which eventually become Nokolisp. Not a big thing at all -- I just made a Pascal-compiler to this metamachine. http://timonoko.github.io/Nokolisp.htm http://timonoko.github.io/Nokolisp.htm
- timonoko 6y agoOh yes now I remembered it all. I went to army right after that. But I was a Hippie at the time and concious objector of sort. The inquisition panel found out my objection was not "real" so I ended up as Army Radio Man. But I learned to morse very badly, probably because of mild dyslexia. So rest of the year I was making test equipment for a Russian Missile Control because of language skills ( https://flic.kr/p/JycyMy https://flic.kr/p/JycyMy ). And just occasionally consulting the "Kyber"-team. I did not get any medals or ranks for my contribution, because untrustworthy Hippie with bad hairdo. Also I was rejected from army reserve duties, which was very good.