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nyankosensei
7y ago
https://redmonk.com/sogrady/2020/02/28/language-rankings-1-2...
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nyankosensei
7y ago
This appears to be the paper: https://pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10.1021/acsami.9b08290
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7y ago
Icon is still available, but not actively developed: https://www2.cs.arizona.edu/icon/ Unicon is an object-oriented descendant that’s more active: http://unicon.org/ I often wonder why Icon (or Unicon)
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7y ago
Ralph Griswold, designer of the Icon programming language, was very interested in weaving and maintained an “On-Line Digital Archive of Documents on Weaving and Related Topics”: https://www2.cs.arizona.edu/patterns/weav
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nyankosensei
8y ago
This sounds like a previously known effect known as “negative luminescence“: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Negative_luminescence
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nyankosensei
8y ago
I highly recommend the “Q for Mortals” book as an excellent introduction to using K and it’s available online: https://code.kx.com/q4m3/
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8y ago
...and it’s Open Access, i.e. free download.
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What Closing a Government Radio Station Would Mean for Your Clocks
(npr.org)
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8y ago
Link to the paper mentioned in the article: http://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal....
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9y ago
Why aren’t any blossoms shown in Hokkaido?
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The Eccentric Lives of Steinhaus, Banach and Ulam (2014)
(culture.pl)
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9y ago
For those interested in exploring this interesting language, you can find a good tutorial here: http://maude.cs.uiuc.edu/primer/maude-primer.pdf You can also download a copy of the definitive “All About Maude” referenc
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nyankosensei
9y ago
Here is Brailsford’s Computerphile video describing how the memo was reconstructed: https://youtu.be/CVxeuwlvf8w
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9y ago
If you download and run Pharo, a Welcome screen appears with a menu that includes “Learn Pharo Smalltalk”. That leads to a simple interactive tutorial called ProfStef that introduces you to Smalltalk syntax. There’s also a link to a free in
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nyankosensei
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There's an interesting book that uses that C64 one liner to "understand the cultural context of computing" and it's an open access book: https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/10-print-chr2055rnd1-goto-10
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9y ago
I suspect they meant "eponymous river".
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'Q for Mortals' Version 3 book available online
(code.kx.com)
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10y ago
Has anyone tried the Lout typesetting program? I worked with it several years ago and was very impressed. Mark Summerfield uses it for his programming books: https://www.qtrac.eu/lout.html