eggy

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1. 691.▲
   by eggy 5y ago

   I loved my Vic-20. I had programmed on my Commodore PET 2001, but the Vic-20 opened me up to so much.
2. 692.▲
   by eggy 5y ago

   I didn't know they made a 2. We had the original in 1972!
3. 693.▲
   by eggy 5y ago

   You wrote about it in a school report? You couldn't write on the Odyssey from my recollection.
4. 694.▲
   by eggy 5y ago

   We were dirt poor, and I remember the day my father brought home the Magnavox Odyssey box. My brother and I learned all the state capitals, we had fun with the ski game, and the other overlays that came with it which fit perfect on our Magn
5. 695.▲
   by eggy 5y ago

   Thanks for the informative reply. I'll have to try the BetterC mode. Scala Native allows you to do all the low-level stuff in the syntax of Scala with Java and C libs available that logically work at that level. Obviously, JVM-dependen
6. 696.▲
   by eggy 5y ago

   D seems to have a lot of strengths as being less complex than C++, and I have heard great things about it. It seemed to be a better C++ rather than a low-level C. Is that mostly a true statement? Is Bartosz Milewski still a member of the de
7. 697.▲
   by eggy 5y ago

   nim is good, and I was onboard when it was nimrod (liked that name better!). It's very good. Here's where my supposedly polyglot objectivity falls prey to subjective syntax like/dislike. I am not a fan of python's syntax
8. 698.▲
   by eggy 5y ago

   I had tried vlang last year in June. Has it changed much? It seems to be syntactically close to Rust and Zig. I tried building it with MSVC back then, and it failed (closed issue #5399). I'll have to try again, since they seemed to hav
9. 699.▲
   by eggy 5y ago

   Funny you should say that. I barely touched Go, but I felt immediately at home with it from my C experience. Boring is good most of the time. I don't know about Go routines, etc., but the GC differentiates it from C, Zig, Rust, and Sca
10. 700.▲
    by eggy 5y ago

    I've touched Zig a few times over the last year or so, and I like it, but I am still itching for something else that is not as complex as Rust, but not too close to C. I am now playing with Scala Native[0] just to see how it works on t
11. 701.▲
    by eggy 5y ago

    You hit it on the head: The point is purely for fun and learning. I want to learn as much as I can by rebuilding apps from scratch, etc. I had my first computer in 1977/78, a Commodore PET 2001, followed by a Vic-20, so if I can duplic
12. 702.▲
    by eggy 5y ago

    Just curious how hard it would be to forego POSIX entirely if you were building an OS. I know TempleOS is entirely from scratch. I'd like to implement a small LISP like SectorLISP [1] (see yesterday's posts too on HN). I don'
13. 703.▲
    by eggy 5y ago

    I agree 100%. QNX is lurking in products you may use. It was the OS for the show control system that is used throughout entertainment where real-time is necessary for the safety of the devices it controls, which also have hardware safety at
14. 704.▲
    by eggy 5y ago

    He's very prolific and the content is rich. I always feel I need to step up my game. People like Justine and Nils inspire me to keep at it!
15. 705.▲
    by eggy 5y ago

    Yes, Justine's amazing. I have also been following and reading Nils M. Holm's books. I program in J/APL, and I picked up Nils' book on Klong, but I have not fully worked through it yet. It gives me a perspective on J&#x2
16. 706.▲
    by eggy 5y ago

    That and you might get up and pass your current typing speed while substantially reducing wear and tear on your hands and wrists even if you don't have RSI issues. I bought the Georgi keyboard [0] and I am using Plover. The Georgi can
17. 707.▲
    by eggy 5y ago

    It needs more resources coming from practitioners rather than early adopters or software engineers; it needs more time to mature, and I think it will. It is just not there for me yet, and I am no longer a spring chicken. The SPARK book I ci
18. 708.▲
    by eggy 5y ago

    I am toying with SPARK on smaller chips. You can gradually replace parts of C code, like I think you can in Rust too, and work up to doing full-scale replacement or projects from scratch with SPARK on embedded devices, which has a lot of th
19. 709.▲
    by eggy 5y ago

    So in the end, a vanilla CL implementation is still slower than all the work that went into the Clojure version? I love SBCL, and I am rediscovering Lisp after playing with a lot of other PLs. This is reassuring to me in my choice to go wit
20. 710.▲
    by eggy 5y ago

    Don't forget Lush: Lisp Universal SHell[1] by none other than Yann LeCun, and this was back in 2004. I played with it in 2012 or so. Lisp, SBCL, is great for science. I am playing with April, a subset of APL in Lisp. The best of both w
21. 711.▲
    by eggy 5y ago

    Not long enough to require a third or fourth booster per Israel and some other countries, so not a good analogy unless we're all bad COVID students.
22. 712.▲
    by eggy 5y ago

    I have been very interested in this project, but I have not had time to implement it in my workflow. Particularly a project that was on my radar several years ago, but it seems to have lost momentum is tail2futhark[1], a way of compiling AP
23. 713.▲
    by eggy 5y ago

    I had a normal size cassette player built into my Commodore PET 2001 back in 1977/78. Tape speeds are slow, but then again most of my programs were under 100 lines with some outliers at 250 to 350. Not a lot even for a cassette drive.
24. 714.▲
    by eggy 5y ago

    I like the confluence of ML and array languages happening right now. I know Pandas and NumPy are their offspring, but I like the array-oriented PLs. An ELM (Extreme Learning Machine) in J [1], CNNs in APL [2], and APL-to-GPU toolchains lik
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    by eggy 5y ago

    I would also recommend Conor Hoekstra's version of that video for a bit more explanation: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pMslgySQ8nc&t=45s&ab_channel... And he even shows how you can animate it in the editor w
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    by eggy 5y ago

    Actually, Dzaima's APL app for Android has a very intuitive keyboard, coupled with APL's terseness, allows me to do pretty intricate stuff on my phone that I can pick up later at my desktop if it gets bigger. A lot of the resistan
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    by eggy 5y ago

    I owned Scrivener on my old 2011 iMac. I loved it, and it did everything it said, but I got bogged down in the OCD of organizing, so I tried minimalist editors like Ulysses[1] and WriteMonkey[2]. Even timeline, video-editing-esque editor li
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    The race to reinvent document editing(fastcompany.com)

    2 points by eggy 5y ago|3 comments
29. 719.▲
    by eggy 5y ago

    Oh, no! Bring back the MSJVM!
30. 720.▲
    by eggy 5y ago

    I am playing with and learning April[1], a subset of APL that compiles to Lisp. It is a blast for me, because I had programmed a bit in Lisp in the 90s, and then I found J around 2011/12. I always loved Lisp, and I didn't really g