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by anta40 4y ago
Is there any mid-sized/popular open source apps written in Modula-2 (obviously, excluding the compiler itself)?
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by anta40 4y ago
VB 6 was my 1st exposure for desktop programming (MSVC was harder). Then I met Delphi 6, and Lazarus. These days, when I want to build cross platform desktop apps quickly, Lazarus is #1 choice. P.S: I don't write desktop apps profesion
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by anta40 4y ago
The author has other interesting bootable games, like: - https://github.com/nanochess/Invaders (Invaders) - https://github.com/nanochess/bricks (bricks and paddle) - https://github.com&
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by anta40 4y ago
I don't get the "digital wall" things. Yes, mid 2020 till 2021 is the worst part of the pandemic era. For few months, shopping malls, restaurants, cafes etc are not allowed to open. Then the restrictions were gradually lifted
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by anta40 4y ago
I don't use plain black wallpapers because it makes dust/fingerprints etc on my laptop screen easily noticable, so prefer relativily minimalist wallpapers. Used to like "crowded" wallpapers like cityscape, but found it d
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by anta40 4y ago
Fuji X100 models (APSC), and Sony RX1R (fullframe). Fixed lens, obviously.
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by anta40 4y ago
That would make the whole learning process way slower. I remember a few old lecturers saying they learnt programming on punch card computers, which you have to wait a few hours just to get a simple code running. Usually, you are not lucky e
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by anta40 4y ago
+1 for printing, which are a rare habit on social media era. Virtually any image looks great on FB/Instagram/etc, but once you printed it big, you'll notice how good or bad actually it is.
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by anta40 4y ago
I think for learning photography today, using a film camera will very likely wasteful, unless you are pursuing a photography degree, for example. Get a digital camera. Instant feedback and histogram are very useful for judging your exposure
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by anta40 4y ago
LaTeX can virtually produce anything I need/want: - algorithm pseudocode - cooking recipe - flowchart - Karnaugh map - chess board notation - etc Beautiful output, but sometimes the process isn't easy. Does Texmacs over some advan
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by anta40 4y ago
I think Pascal implementations are practically dominated by Delphi and FPC these days (FPC has Delphi compatibility mode). On the other side, there are more players in C/C++ club: GCC, Clang, MSVC, Pelles C, LCC Win32, AMD C++, Intel C
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by anta40 4y ago
>> Interesting article! It argues that when mathematics became dissociated from both physics and geometry, it became this horrible abstract algebraic kabbala that's at once disgusting and pointless. What about number theory? Or t
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by anta40 4y ago
Not sure about the current state of ISO Pascal, at least there's no ISO D or Rust, either. D and Rust are defined by the official implementations. On the other side, Delphi is still being enhanced and FPC tries to be compatible with it
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by anta40 4y ago
Hmm.. wonder why Pascal isn't on the list
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by anta40 4y ago
Why?
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by anta40 4y ago
As far as I know, DMD doesn't offer much optimisations. So you use DMD for development, and once the testing is done, built the production release with LDC or GDC.
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by anta40 4y ago
But for the sake of argument, I don't see why Forth isn't appropriate for learning programming. I started learning programming in 2001 with QBasic. Didn't do "real work tasks" like downloading some files from server
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by anta40 4y ago
>> IMO, you get better at programing understanding FORTH Isn't assembly fit the place better? :)
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by anta40 4y ago
Beside embedded system or firmware, what are Forth's popular use cases these days? Personally I never see backend development or mobile frontend job vacancies that require Forth skill, for example.
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by anta40 4y ago
I still use an IDE for work, and that's the only free Jetbrains product: Android Studio. Of course, I'm an Android dev. Sometimes code in Go for backend dev. VSCode + a bunch of plugins work OK. Perhaps not super snappy like Subli
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by anta40 4y ago
>> Someone else said HTML-only websites are "ugly as hell." I disagree. They're beautiful. Well, we can always agree to disagree. I started learning HTML in 2001 (or 2000) and typically plain HTML websites at that time
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by anta40 4y ago
>> Where the C users are hiding? Not hiding... C domain are rather "limited" these days, like embedded system, microcontroller, OS kernel, robotics, etc. I worked at a local smartcard manufactur for a few years, and the team
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by anta40 4y ago
I discovered Randall Hyde's HLA (High Level Assembly) while in the university around 2005/2006: https://www.plantation-productions.com/Webster/HighLevelAsm/... and thought it would be awesome to use that
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by anta40 4y ago
Perhaps you are using Gentoo or any other complicated distro which needs to be configured manually even for basic requirements? With user-friendliers distros like Ubuntu, you usually are "plug and play", ready to go. I'd love
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by anta40 4y ago
Seems like the 32-bit version, which is open source, isn't updated anymore.
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by anta40 4y ago
"9 April 2022: MikeOS 4.7 released!" Still being updated. Nice. Gotta give it a try.
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by anta40 4y ago
I remember a few years ago when searching for photography materials beyond techniques/compositions, some names that came up: - Roland Barthes' Camera Lucida - Susan Sontag's On Photography - John Berger's Ways of Seeing
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by anta40 4y ago
Some open source projects like OpenCV are IDE friendly... thanks to build automation tools like CMake. Sure you can use good old make, but you can also load the projects files into your favourite IDE to build. Easy. Other projects are unfor
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by anta40 4y ago
I'm not enough to profesionally use Turbo Pascal. By digging old codes on old computer magazines, my impression was typically Pascal projects are "fat projects", where the dependencies/libraries are stored inside the pro
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by anta40 4y ago
So, how can we build this thing? No documentation/README etc

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