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I worked at Olivetti's Advanced Technology Labs in Cupertino until 1989. We were really making some wonderful stuff then, but the company itself was having trou
by fortran77 2y ago
I worked at Olivetti's Advanced Technology Labs in Cupertino until 1989. We were really making some wonderful stuff then, but the company itself was having trouble, and some scandals. The executive staff were always being arrested for one thing or another (see https://www.nytimes.com/1993/11/03/world/accused-olivetti-chief-surrenders-and-is-freed-under-house-arrest.html https://www.nytimes.com/1993/11/03/world/accused-olivetti-ch... for example).
We paid more attention to cases, fasteners, and design than most other clone vendors.
I left out of frustration and joined a little company that put a stack-based programming language inside laser printers.
- 082349872349872 2y agoDid you edit with `jet` by any chance? Lagniappe: https://www.scaruffi.com/history/long.html https://www.scaruffi.com/history/long.html
- kragen 2y agowould you say it's more like lisp or more like forth? this has been a topic of argument
- fortran77 2y agoIt's more like forth if I had to pick one. Though it is very lispy -- you can pass functions as objects, etc. I was quite good at programming in it back in the day.
- kragen 2y agoyou may enjoy my friend nathan's http://postscriptcode.com/ http://postscriptcode.com/ he says it's more like forth, i disagree