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RETRO: a Modern, Pragmatic Forth
http://forthworks.com:8800/retro/book.html#retro-a-modern-pragmatic-forth
#retro #programming #forth
Very much enjoyed (finally) reading this today (while procrastinating from other things I was supposed to be doing). The paper is in PDF form, here:
https://akkartik.name/akkartik-convivial-20200607.pdf
Title is "Bicycles for the Mind Have to Be See-Through".
Anyone with a passing interest in #lisp, #forth, or #smalltalk has some very interesting material to chew on. And the @malleablesys people too, but I presume they've seen it over on the forum, where I first became aware of it myself.
The idea as I understood it is, to quote the paper, to "prioritize comprehension over ease of authorship". And bring that to the whole software stack, and see how far you can push it.
@akkartik where is the whole project at now, how is it all going? I only eyeballed the source code, but the rationale behind the whole thing was very interesting.
One more quote from the end:
"Creating an entire new stack may seem like tilting at windmills, but the mainstream Software-Industrial Complex suffers from obvious defects even in the eyes of those who don’t share our philosophy."
Very much enjoyed (finally) reading this today (while procrastinating from other things I was supposed to be doing). The paper is in PDF form, here:
https://akkartik.name/akkartik-convivial-20200607.pdf
Title is "Bicycles for the Mind Have to Be See-Through".
Anyone with a passing interest in #lisp, #forth, or #smalltalk has some very interesting material to chew on. And the @malleablesys people too, but I presume they've seen it over on the forum, where I first became aware of it myself.
The idea as I understood it is, to quote the paper, to "prioritize comprehension over ease of authorship". And bring that to the whole software stack, and see how far you can push it.
@akkartik where is the whole project at now, how is it all going? I only eyeballed the source code, but the rationale behind the whole thing was very interesting.
One more quote from the end:
"Creating an entire new stack may seem like tilting at windmills, but the mainstream Software-Industrial Complex suffers from obvious defects even in the eyes of those who don’t share our philosophy."
The utopias of yesterday – GfZK Leipzig presents the history of Robotron...
(Robotron was East Germany's largest computer manufacturer and they also made the machine I first got to use on my way to becoming a "computer toucher"... Almost exactly 10 years ago, I wrote about those early experiences and the lessons learned already back then in this long read article here:
https://medium.com/@thi.ng/the-jacob-s-ladder-of-coding-4b12477a26c1
Exhibition info (via @aramba):
https://archive.ph/UWFgT
#Exhibition #RetroComputing #ComputerHistory #Robotron #Atari #Arduino #STM32 #Forth #Assembly #Demoscene
RETRO: a Modern, Pragmatic Forth
http://forthworks.com:8800/retro/book.html#retro-a-modern-pragmatic-forth
#retro #programming #forth
I've finished the initial Haskell implementation of my ilo vm for #konilo #forth
As with the nga implementation for #retroforth, it's not going to be good yet, but it's a start.
http://fossils.retroforth.org:8000/ilo/file?name=vm/Ilo.hs&ci=2b817e17ddcc281a
I've finished the initial Haskell implementation of my ilo vm for #konilo #forth
As with the nga implementation for #retroforth, it's not going to be good yet, but it's a start.
http://fossils.retroforth.org:8000/ilo/file?name=vm/Ilo.hs&ci=2b817e17ddcc281a
We knew this day would come eventually.
Chuck Moore, inventor of the #Forth programming language, officially retires from Forth programming.
"It's time to move on."
We knew this day would come eventually.
Chuck Moore, inventor of the #Forth programming language, officially retires from Forth programming.
"It's time to move on."
We knew this day would come eventually.
Chuck Moore, inventor of the #Forth programming language, officially retires from Forth programming.
"It's time to move on."
The utopias of yesterday – GfZK Leipzig presents the history of Robotron...
(Robotron was East Germany's largest computer manufacturer and they also made the machine I first got to use on my way to becoming a "computer toucher"... Almost exactly 10 years ago, I wrote about those early experiences and the lessons learned already back then in this long read article here:
https://medium.com/@thi.ng/the-jacob-s-ladder-of-coding-4b12477a26c1
Exhibition info (via @aramba):
https://archive.ph/UWFgT
#Exhibition #RetroComputing #ComputerHistory #Robotron #Atari #Arduino #STM32 #Forth #Assembly #Demoscene
@JdeBP Translation: they're looking for Series-A funding (or something like that). Not necessarily with any expectation of delivering a product: but it's nice work, if you can get it.
The same thought crossed my mind. (-:
Although the disclosure statement on the original article at https://doi.org/10.64628/AB.rkrnyke4r says otherwise.
It's such a cyberpunk name, though. A quick search turned up that there was indeed a Japan-industrial #QuasarGroup from at least 1974 to 1983. Originally part of #Motorola it was sold to #Matsushita and in 1982 was selling a #MOS6502 hand-held computer that ran MS BASIC and a variant of #FORTH called snapFORTH.
Forth – is it still relevant?
https://github.com/chochain/eforth
#HackerNews #Forth #relevance #programming #languages #tech #history #eforth
Message in a bottle time again #GetFediHired #jobsearch #needwork. Might have to add smoke signals, sky writing, and shortwave radio (via @va2nw ?) channels to get the word out.
Growing increasingly needy in search for software developer work in the #Ottawa #Montreal areas. #C #C# #Erlang #Java #NodeJS #Forth #Shell #SQL #BSD #Linux #English #French and more. Very versatile, adaptable, experienced. I cook too; every office should have someone who can make Neapolitan style #pizzas for team lunches & parties.
I am happy to announce the FemtoMSP430, a processor designed with the instruction set of the classic #MSP430, but with a flexible bus interface similar to @BrunoLevy01 #FemtoRV32 including memory busy signaling. The playground contains a phantasy "microcontroller" design for the #ULX3S #FPGA board, interactively running the original #Mecrisp #Forth image for MSP430G2755, enhanced with a text mode on 800x600 video, USB-CDC terminal and a lot of GPIO wires: https://codeberg.org/Mecrisp/FemtoMSP430
I am happy to announce the FemtoMSP430, a processor designed with the instruction set of the classic #MSP430, but with a flexible bus interface similar to @BrunoLevy01 #FemtoRV32 including memory busy signaling. The playground contains a phantasy "microcontroller" design for the #ULX3S #FPGA board, interactively running the original #Mecrisp #Forth image for MSP430G2755, enhanced with a text mode on 800x600 video, USB-CDC terminal and a lot of GPIO wires: https://codeberg.org/Mecrisp/FemtoMSP430
I just realized that later today one of my first films, "IFSfilm" from 1991, will be shown in a programme put together by Martijn van Boven for the 25fps festival in Zagreb, under the title "Raw Data: The Origins of Digital Film".
Pictured are some tests I made at the time on a dot matrix printer, which was certainly not a suitable medium for these rather fragile images; I ended up shooting the film on 16mm, frame by frame from a monitor. The software was written in FORTH and assembler.
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