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It's fascinating to have a glimpse into a parallel history of computing that happened in a small country without the resources to make it big, but with tireless
by kubb 2y ago
It's fascinating to have a glimpse into a parallel history of computing that happened in a small country without the resources to make it big, but with tireless efforts of brilliant mathematicians and engineers who made the advancements against the odds.
If the history ran along a parallel path, I wonder what could have been different and what would have ended up exactly the same.
For the PL nerds who are curious about Loglan, check out:
https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Andrzej-Salwicki/publication/236856540_Report_on_the_Loglan'82_Programming_Language/links/00b4951989fd7cf09e000000/Report-on-the-Loglan82-Programming-Language.pdf https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Andrzej-Salwicki/public...
- Animats 2y ago> parallel history of computing Indeed. Note that on the tape drives, the take-up reel is on the left.
- andai 2y agoNot to be confused with the other Loglan: http://www.loglan.org/ http://www.loglan.org/ Which evolved into Lojban: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lojban https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lojban
- acka 2y agoPoland may seem small to USians, but it is not a small country by any stretch of the imagination, either on a global or European scale. It is significantly larger than Austria and only slightly smaller than Germany. For context, Poland is about 8 times bigger than The Netherlands.