mhd

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by mhd 11mo ago
Next step, programmming and RPG with RPGs in RPG.
32.
by mhd 11mo ago
When I read about Pancake, for a very short moment I was hoping for some Elan[1] influences… 1: https://os.inf.tu-dresden.de/L4/l3elan.html
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by mhd 11mo ago
A lot of C# and Java code is oriented towards web backends, too. Which are quite big and complex. So it seems natural that languages in the same design space (trad OO) converge on similar features. I think the only exception these days is G
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by mhd 11mo ago
Perl? Are there existing modules for the Linux KMS interface? Otherwise this would also be an off-beat language choice, and these days with only marginally more developers… (And I say that as a Perl fan) Personally, I'm glad that this
35.
by mhd 1y ago
Don’t threaten me with a good time.
36.
by mhd 1y ago
Any good cases for that? I’d be afraid of ending up with a lump of duct-taped SATA SSDs around the PCB…
37.
by mhd 1y ago
I'm voting for Cold Fusion on top of Golang.
38.
by mhd 1y ago
Someone should make a windowmaker dockapp out of this.
39.
by mhd 1y ago
> I'd even suspect if you tried Golang it may even bring SumatraPDF to other platforms which would be another huge benefit to your users Probably by using a cross-platform toolkit written in C++.
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by mhd 1y ago
Done a while ago: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scwm There was also "GWM", based on its own lisp dialect, "WOOL", which was around from at least the early 90s. On the more popular side, you had sawf
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by mhd 1y ago
I would recommend most fonts that Michael Sharpe worked on. He did some nice refinements on already-decent fonts, often to bring copies closer to the original[1]. Heck, I’d recommend them outside of LaTeX, too. Favorites out of those are XC
42.
by mhd 1y ago
To be fair, everything is still bundled with Slackware.
43.
by mhd 1y ago
This reminds me of the days when all of a sudden win32 programming in assembly became hip enough, probably as a response to the increasing size of shareware downloads ('twas the dark time of MFC). Combined with early Palm Pilot 68k pro
44.
by mhd 1y ago
On the other hand, I'm also sad that I don't longer have a computer interface like I had from 1995 - 2010, i.e. that everything is webflat and image-heavy. So weighing the timeline options, I'm not sure I'd pick the look
45.
by mhd 1y ago
I'm currently using an old copy of Letter Gothic 12 Pitch from an ancient Ventura Publisher CD, and like that style a lot, so definitely going to try this.
46.
by mhd 1y ago
The Wiki[1] is one of the primary "hang out" spots, although it's a bit different from usual online communication. But there's a lot of mutual commenting, small articles and utilities etc. on there. [1]: https:/&#x
47.
by mhd 1y ago
Sure, but does anyone remember SCGI ?
48.
by mhd 2y ago
Well, sadly NeWs isn't supported anymore.
49.
by mhd 2y ago
While I agree that there's been a decided shift towards one-try-language-ism these days, there always were complaints about Perl's readability. Mostly because its heydays didn't quite coincide with good programming practice
50.
by mhd 2y ago
And we're back to the roots of Project Builder, XCode's predecessor. Or, to be honest, early XCode versions, where a lot of editing was done in more stable/capable editors.
51.
by mhd 2y ago
Isn't this basically the same feature that existed in ksh93?
52.
by mhd 2y ago
Wouldn't that mostly matter if you're really navigating in your source code via the tree panel? In the post-Textmate days, fuzzy file finders seem to be all the rage whether you're using vim or IDEs (or Sublime etc.). Or you
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by mhd 2y ago
OpenLook would like to have a word about those corners… (But yes, in general it's all custom "cards" and list views. HTML didn't allow a good set of GUI widgets, so people adapted, and now the cruel circle has closed wit
54.
by mhd 2y ago
> GUIs made in FLTK are visually ugly. In the earlier days, both Qt and gtk quickly jumped on the theme train, where you could customize the looks of widgets heavily, and IIRC FLTK never caught up there. I think the default L&F can c
55.
by mhd 2y ago
If I remember correctly, both FLTK and XForms have a commmon "ancestor" in the Forms library for SGI (pre-OpenGL days).
56.
by mhd 2y ago
> effectively better than all of the alternatives Which gladly rarely happens, so often you still have sufficient choice. Now, if it turns out Euler sabotaged some bridges and caused deaths, you'd still have a hard time avoiding usi
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by mhd 2y ago
Having EWD as a dissenter also seems a rather low bar, to be fair. (One might say he was a bit of a Edsgerlord.)
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by mhd 2y ago
There's a lot of hearsay in that articles, and a lot of sentiment rooted in the particulars of that time. Sure, it was a complex thing in the late 60s/early 70s. Sure, Wirth came up with something simpler. But I'm missing a d
59.
by mhd 2y ago
I wouldn't go that far, as there are already a bunch of people using it. As always, there's a spectrum between mass consumption and purely individual environments. It's just that as an industry, we've never been that muc
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by mhd 2y ago
This reminds me of a similar attempt with Perl[0], done a few… erm, twenty years ago. Might be interesting to do a three-way comparison for a few well-covered cases. [0]: https://metacpan.org/release/CWEST/ppt-0.14

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