alanlit

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   by alanlit 5y ago

   If the PiDP11 follows Oscar's PiDP8 then the blinkenlights are pulse-width-modulated and you do get a warm glow out of them rather than a heartless and cold on/off. My recollection is that more of the PI's cpu cycles are spen
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   by alanlit 10y ago

   Bah -- try again so it is readable !! %% Simple statements -- root is an announcement word whose subject and object tell the story. %% 'IBM announced a new computer today' announce(Who, About, What) ==> s
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   by alanlit 10y ago

   Nice work by the O.P. Amusingly a year or so ago I took the Stanford Dependency parser and fed its output tree into a Prolog system to try to pull out the semantics. It was used to analyze business news (getting at the who's, what&#x27
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   by alanlit 10y ago

   Just got my copy from Amazon. Cannot recommend Penrose highly enough ... a truly brilliant mathematical physicist who is not afraid to call out Emperor's new clothes as it were (which of course is an indirect reference to another of hi
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   by alanlit 10y ago

   Well, Simula predates PARC by about a decade, so I'm not so sure about AK created OOP. As for Windows and such, sniff around YouTube -- that notion goes back to the late 50's early 60's. That AK popularized this stuff - sure.
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   by alanlit 11y ago

   Man, what a weird question. I'm 61; been programming since 1968 (Ferranti Atlas -- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atlas_%28computer%29 -- the first machine with a whole bunch of stuff). What have I learned?: * Soft