nils-m-holm

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by nils-m-holm 2y ago
Static HTML. Hand-written up to 2025, generated from homebrew markdown since this year. http://t3x.org
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by nils-m-holm 2y ago
My T3X/9 compiler generates ELF with no sections at all, there is just a code and data segment. A later version even gets rid of the data segment, but that is not ready for publication. http://t3x.org/t3x/index.htm
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by nils-m-holm 2y ago
Good to hear! I do more yoga than programming these days. :)
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by nils-m-holm 2y ago
The langiage in the examples is Klong, not Python. KlongPy translates Klong to Python and then executes it.
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by nils-m-holm 2y ago
Good to see KlongPy thrive! It is based on Klong ( http://t3x.org/klong/ ), which I do not maintain any more, so I am glad that Brian took over!
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Write Your Own Programs – my latest book(t3x.org)
4 points by nils-m-holm 2y ago|0 comments
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Write Your Own Programs(t3x.org)
4 points by nils-m-holm 2y ago|0 comments
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by nils-m-holm 2y ago
I have used FreeBSD for work and play since version 1.1.5. Never had any trouble with it. Since more than 10 years I am also running it on notebook computers. Back in the days a friend visited and we talked about fork bombs. I fetched a spa
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by nils-m-holm 2y ago
I see. Most of the things you list I think I could do better on my own. The case of X from industry Y sounds interesting, but I would still prefer to hear from a real human being from industry Z. If no one is available, of course, a statist
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by nils-m-holm 2y ago
I use a spell checker to catch typos. Occasional quirky grammar is mine. Feedback will be provided by the audience. Why would I let a statistical model judge my work? This is how you kill originality.
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by nils-m-holm 2y ago
What I write is pretty niche anyway (compilers, LISP, buddhism, advaita), so I do not think AI will cause much trouble. Google ranking small websites into oblivion, though, I do notice that!
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by nils-m-holm 2y ago
> It's not so much that I think people have used AI, but that I know they have with a high degree of certainty, and this certainty is converging to 100%, simply because there is no way it will not. If you write regularly and you&#x2
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by nils-m-holm 2y ago
Being found is the greatest problem that small web sites have these days. Glad you found it again! :)
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by nils-m-holm 2y ago
Pretty much everything that is linked to is also on T3X.ORG. :)
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by nils-m-holm 2y ago
Here's my contribution to the small web: http://t3x.org
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by nils-m-holm 2y ago
> That's because the FAT file system used by CP/M didn't allow lower case letters, at all. Sure it did. Just start Microsoft BASIC on CP/M, type a program and save it as "hello". It will appear in the direct
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by nils-m-holm 2y ago
> If I remember correctly, Aztec C was from Mark Williams. It was also the basis for the c Compiler that came with Coherent OS. That would have been "Mark Williams C", also marketed as "Let's C" for MDSOS.
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by nils-m-holm 2y ago
Funny how most of the article reads (to me) "back in the days things were done in the obvious way, while now everything is weird". In other words I still program like in the 1980's. :) CP/M programming is a lot of fun, e
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The Formal Definition of the T3X Programming Language(t3x.org)
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by nils-m-holm 3y ago
Unfortunately, there is little empathy on the Internet. People will take the two bits of information you offer, think they understood the whole situation with all its facets perfectly, and start to give questionable advice and mete out hars
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by nils-m-holm 3y ago
> dot(P;Q) You can also write P dot Q.
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by nils-m-holm 3y ago
I just wanted a simple language for writing down algorithms, so I think I hacked up the first version in one afternoon. It must have been T2, because AFAIR I never implemented T1. Here is a page containing some of the past T3X compilers: h
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by nils-m-holm 3y ago
Thanks, and always good to hear stories from Mark Williams! The minimalism of Coherent 3.x indeed gave it a special place in my heart. I still have a virtual machine image of it, now even with the complete source code. A book about the inte
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by nils-m-holm 3y ago
I ran Coherent on quite a few PC clone computers, most of them 286 with a WD1006 MFM controller and a Seagate ST-225 or Mitsubishi MR535 hard disk. Later I had it on a variety of cheap 386 boxes with IDE interfaces and on one machine with a
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by nils-m-holm 3y ago
Good times! It is all fun until you want to apply global changes to some 1500 static pages. :) So far the pain is not sufficiently intense to make me write a CMS, though. And even then the design would stay the same!
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by nils-m-holm 3y ago
T3X dates back to the early 1990's, where C-style syntax was not as ubiquitous as it is now.
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by nils-m-holm 3y ago
What is ARM26? I know ARMv6, and a T3X/0 back end for the ARMv6 would be seriously cool. So cool in fact that I might write it myself. :) Here is an unsigned divide for the ARMv6 that I borrowed for the SubC compiler: http:/&#x2F
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by nils-m-holm 3y ago
Coherent had a K&R C compiler, so modern software would simply not compile. There is a tool called "unproto" that compiles ANSI (C89) programs with K&R compilers, and there is a Coherent version on my homepage ( http:&#x2F
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by nils-m-holm 3y ago
> Anyone that used it or wrote code for it hated it. I didn't! Used Coherent 3.0.0 and all later versions and wrote quite a few programs for it and ported many more. UUCP packages, news readers, wrote my own CU clone, my own mail cl
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by nils-m-holm 3y ago
This is good to hear! Thank you!

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