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by pointfree 7y ago
Daniel Kalny's GA144 projects' YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCVMrX6BlNjIeGfX0QcBobGg
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“Inspired by bats” Binaural obstacle detection implemented in GA144 [pdf](forth.org)
2 points by pointfree 7y ago|1 comments
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by pointfree 7y ago
> 1. Is it possible to write complex, modern applications (things like browsers, photo editors, etc. — things that would take millions of lines of Java or JS) using this style of programming? If it were a complex application it wouldn&#x
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by pointfree 7y ago
> Portability is not important. Portability is not possible. Real applications are closely coupled to hardware. Change the platform and all the code changes. If it didn't, you wouldn't have changed the platform.
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by pointfree 7y ago
"Over the Shoulder 1 - Text Preprocessing in Forth" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mvrE2ZGe-rs - Sam Falvo demonstrates writing a blog engine in Forth.
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Levels of code in Forth programming (2002)(ultratechnology.com)
163 points by pointfree 7y ago|51 comments
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Symmetric Division Considered Harmful(nimblemachines.com)
1 points by pointfree 7y ago|0 comments
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by pointfree 7y ago
Most languages that aim to be minimal bake in a minimal syntax, but without implicit parameter passing, composability is not going to be extensible.
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FOSDEM 2019 – GBForth: Using Forth to Understand the Game Boy(fosdem.org)
2 points by pointfree 8y ago|0 comments
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What is the PDF format good for? Nothing (2006)(complang.tuwien.ac.at)
32 points by pointfree 8y ago|32 comments
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by pointfree 9y ago
> Anarchism is a political ideology that's never met the real world, like a lot of ideologies on HN and elsewhere. This might convince the random Internet reader, but it's not going to convince anyone who has studied the topic.
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by pointfree 9y ago
With all due respect I would have liked if the hackernews moderators had kept my original headline "An Anarchist Critique of Democracy by Moxie Marlinspike (Signal SMS), Windy Hart" I thought this article/transcript was of in
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An Anarchist Critique of Democracy (2005)(theanarchistlibrary.org)
57 points by pointfree 9y ago|85 comments
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You Can’t Code Away Their Wealth(medium.com)
2 points by pointfree 10y ago|0 comments
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by pointfree 10y ago
A smaller contact area between implementations means we need only be concerned about compatibility at that interface and the rest is up to you. This keeps the area of software that we can't change to a minimum.
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by pointfree 10y ago
> Their programming interface is highly standardized across implementations. It may be easier to have everyone use the same software and hardware platform everywhere. After all we do want interoperability and we do want everyone to play
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by pointfree 10y ago
Sure you could port webkit to your new OS, but if all the software you use effectively exists only as web apps what would be the point?
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by pointfree 10y ago
The author didn't say "popular" he said "relevant" The current state of software development has huge issues with needless complexity resulting from poorly chosen abstractions. Gopher and IRC make it possible to use
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by pointfree 10y ago
The web is like an operating system that you are locked into using. This prevents alternative operating systems such as Plan 9 from ever becoming useful, because building a web browser is such a monumental effort. Even if a decent web brows
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Why Is Gopher Still Relevant?(gopher.floodgap.com)
119 points by pointfree 10y ago|95 comments
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Pijul: Sane Version Control(youtube.com)
1 points by pointfree 10y ago|0 comments
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Git… enough(jordi.inversethought.com)
3 points by pointfree 10y ago|2 comments
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Over the Shoulder 1 – Text Preprocessing in Forth(youtube.com)
2 points by pointfree 10y ago|0 comments
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Forth in a spreadsheet(github.com)
4 points by pointfree 10y ago|0 comments
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A History of Forth and aha(ultratechnology.com)
2 points by pointfree 10y ago|0 comments
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When is a forth a better unix than Unix?(0xff.in)
2 points by pointfree 10y ago|0 comments
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by pointfree 10y ago
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NK0NwqF8F0k "Chuck Moore, the inventor of Forth and ColorForth programming languages, gives a presentation on writing "1x software," or how to avoid common sources of bloat in
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1x Forth (1999)(ultratechnology.com)
67 points by pointfree 10y ago|30 comments
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Levels of code in Forth programming (2002)(ultratechnology.com)
9 points by pointfree 10y ago|0 comments
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by pointfree 11y ago
"MIT licensed" ...and consequently limited driver support. Copyleft is permissive. There's no need for non-copyleft licensing unless you want restrictive proprietary licensing somewhere or sometime.

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