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by bear8642 6y ago
Indeed - there was post recently about port to Lua which want to investigate further
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by bear8642 6y ago
Thought there's extension enabling JVM tail optimization?
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by bear8642 6y ago
Appears the 80486 can be connected to the S100 bus directly given ability to read from adjustable size databus. This means effectively an x86 style cpu can be part of a simple computer design
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by bear8642 6y ago
Excellent ideas >connect a message back to the parent message - if it was a response Assuming you've got a long list of timestamped messages, how do you identify which messages are continuations of old threads and which ones are sta
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by bear8642 6y ago
Nice! Bit confused on link to TSP but cool!
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by bear8642 6y ago
even more extreme are ZISC: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/No_instruction_set_computing
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by bear8642 6y ago
>a 1-bit processor isn't very exciting Very different order of magnitude but wasn't the connection machine single bit based?
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by bear8642 6y ago
Sounds like you had an excellent romp = was scheme taught with SICP ? Lambda calculus' anonymous functions are fairly simple but massively powerful - try this page? < https://www.inf.fu-berlin.de/lehre/WS03&#x2F
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by bear8642 6y ago
To confirm, that Stack Exchange?
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by bear8642 6y ago
>"high" vs "low" fantasy Thought distinction (originally at least) was whether fantasy happening on imagined realm or here on Earth?
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by bear8642 6y ago
He taught Tom Scott too: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zOwP0KUlnZg Found best line was to remember cuneiform is strokes into something soft, not ink as we do now
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by bear8642 6y ago
Indeed - was confused what elements of struct were on line 2. Thanks for explaining
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by bear8642 6y ago
Can't tell if you're being earnest or funny. Care to say why?
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by bear8642 6y ago
>rather than a notebook Enjoyed these notepads ( http://www.computinghistory.org.uk/det/46261/Floppy-Disk-Not... ) for quick scribbles. More substantial then post-its yet pages easy pull out
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by bear8642 6y ago
>test first it wouldn't have been half as dodgy. Feel part of this, in my very little experience, is with tests focus is getting smallest thing working so less to go wrong
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by bear8642 6y ago
odd Windows gave you that - believe \r was Mac's standard at one point…
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by bear8642 6y ago
Indeed! Their book Elements Of Programming Style is also a fun short read
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by bear8642 6y ago
Found Kernighan and Plauger's Elements of Programming Style useful - interesting to see how many of their comments on Fortran and PL/I code still remain very valid problems. Their further book Software Tools in Pascal I found
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by bear8642 6y ago
for the Nand2Tetris course
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by bear8642 6y ago
Second New Statesman always fascinating perspectives on current affairs
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by bear8642 6y ago
>I'm not sure who GJS is… Gerald Jay Sussman
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by bear8642 6y ago
My immediate thought given title
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by bear8642 6y ago
Thanks for this - very interesting small article
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by bear8642 6y ago
Second hand bookshops are amazing things - sometimes goldmines can be found!
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by bear8642 6y ago
Would you mind explaining why it didn't take off? Imagine problem of domain but something definite would be nice as having trouble finding anything Thanks
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by bear8642 6y ago
Indeed and that's what Plan9 enables you to do
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by bear8642 6y ago
>Working through the nand2tetris project Done various sections of this and would heartily agree with how illuminating working through the project's been
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by bear8642 6y ago
would you care to elaborate on which ones are which?
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by bear8642 6y ago
And that's the way they're shown in K&R2
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by bear8642 6y ago
Whilst Pike contributed to Unix it was Thompson's and Ritchie's invention - at least originally

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