Rochus

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by Rochus 3mo ago
> Alan Kay‘s group at Xerox PARC built Smalltalk and the machine it lived on, the Alto. Everyone knows what we took from PARC: the mouse, the windows, the bitmapped display, the desktop metaphor. Not quite. Kay’s group built Smalltalk
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What most histories get wrong about MUMPS's first standard(github.com)
16 points by Rochus 3mo ago|16 comments
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by Rochus 3mo ago
That's a cool application. Was fun playing around.
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by Rochus 3mo ago
That's cool. Did you compare performance with the PUC Lua VM versions (which are register based as well)? Personally, I find the Are-we-fast-yet suite very useful and usually migrate the suite to my languages to compare the implementat
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by Rochus 3mo ago
Fascinating. Is there a "preview" anywhere?
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by Rochus 3mo ago
Sounds like English film and television series music from the seventies (e.g. "All Creatures Great and Small"). It's nice and surprising (in that Suno was able to create it). But not "more beautiful than any song I have
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by Rochus 3mo ago
Lisp made the compiler’s internal tree representation directly writable by programmers. That is powerful, but it is not the same as giving programmers the best notation for expressing and maintaining large systems. The tiny self-interpreter
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by Rochus 3mo ago
previous post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48833164
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by Rochus 3mo ago
That's a really cool project. Alex already managed to compile the Lisa sources published by the CHM in 2025 using the original Lisa tools run on Ray Arachelian's emulator (see https://github.com/alexthecat123/
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by Rochus 3mo ago
There seem to be a growing number of Rust based microkernel systems (Redox, Robigalia, Tock, Xous, etc.). Anyone knows what's the core benefit of LiberSystem in comparison? The contact address is funny: LiberSoft Liberty Street 1 Liber
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by Rochus 3mo ago
I wouldn't worry about that. Tiobe simply measures how many search queries are made for some terms supposed to represent a programming language, and even that process is still inaccurate (e.g. because of ambiguity with other uses of th
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by Rochus 3mo ago
> RIP Object Pascal Why? It's still there and gets even regular maintenance.
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by Rochus 3mo ago
I’ve been working on a project to celebrate the anniversary of MUMPS and its first standard. For those unfamiliar, MUMPS is an imperative language famously born at Mass General Hospital in 1966. Its defining characteristic is that the langu
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Show HN: A faithful MUMPS 76 anniversary implementation – the original NoSQL DB(github.com)
2 points by Rochus 3mo ago|1 comments
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by Rochus 3mo ago
To celebrate its 50th anniversary, I built a faithful implementation of the 1976 MUMPS standard. For those unfamiliar, MUMPS was born at Mass General Hospital in 1966 and ran heavily on PDP-8s and PDP-11s. It was incredibly far ahead of its
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Running the '80s DECUS Star Trek game on my new MUMPS 76 interpreter(github.com)
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by Rochus 3mo ago
Which brings us back to the beginning of the conversation.
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by Rochus 3mo ago
> Citation needed Various, e.g. https://www.weforum.org/stories/2021/05/radio-davos-jimmy-wa... . It's almost ridiculous to even question these general facts.
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by Rochus 3mo ago
> According to whom? It's very founder (Wales).
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by Rochus 3mo ago
> Then by all means, flag them for deletion Why should I? Who am I to decide for other people what's interesting for them? Having those articles in place doesn't bother anyone (as long as they don't violate laws) and ess
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by Rochus 3mo ago
The whole point of wikipedia was that no such silly rules were in place; a topic is worth publishing as long as there is someone willing to publish it and there are no good reasons (e.g. laws) to not to do so.
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by Rochus 3mo ago
> you tighten the reins or fold... But don't tell me they will fold because they have an article about the Odin programming language. I rather think people will vote with their feet once more when they hear for what silly reason
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by Rochus 3mo ago
As I said, at some point the bueraucracy took over. In the good days of Wikipedia we just added or improved what interested us, no "authority" or bueraucracy involved. Here in Switzerland, we have a fitting expression for the pres
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by Rochus 3mo ago
I'm not an Odin user, but interested in programming languages. Concerning Odin, we have these figures: GitHub stars 10.5k, Forks 966, Contributors 537, Commits 17,511, Releases 97, latest shown as May 4 2026, Discord members 10,016. I
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by Rochus 3mo ago
> minikotlin is written from scratch in C and emits WebAssembly GC bytecode by hand — no JVM, no LLVM, no Binaryen, no Gradle That's amazing. What an achievement! I would like to learn more about it, particularly have a look at th
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by Rochus 3mo ago
I find it strange that they deleted the article. The topic is relevant and of sufficient interest. I think there is a deeper bureaucratic pattern behind it. In every once-useful organization, there comes a point where the rules stop being i
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by Rochus 3mo ago
I recently added a Ninja backend and a users guide and thought this might be helpful for a lot of people. It was pretty stable over the years. I have a few features on my todo list which I will implement as needed, and I recently completed
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by Rochus 3mo ago
I use it instead of qmake and cmake for all my projects since four years. It is most beneficial when used with large, standalone systems that must be built from the ground up for different platforms, and where it is a good idea to possibly
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by Rochus 3mo ago
Static typing is important when you have a large project. I spent much time with the Chromium source tree and its GN build system which is dynamically typed (like most build systems) and thus you have to actually run it (with every possible
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by Rochus 3mo ago
25 gbit internet? I'm in central Switzerland and I have 15 Mbps internet (just measured with https://www.speedtest.ch/ , the cables to the nearest exchange can't handle any more traffic), and I don't know why

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