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bear8642on Using IceWM and a Raspberry Pi as my main PC, sharing my theme, config and some

> but that is it.

The python demo games that come pre-installed are quite fun. The list includes snake, 15-slide puzzle, and fun flood it clones

bear8642on The Greatest Regex Trick Ever (2014)

Know saying wrongish, but for multi-char-exclusion matching, can't you just do [^chars]?

So to search for words without any vowels just 'grep [^aeiou]'?

bear8642on The Greatest Regex Trick Ever (2014)

> operator in regex.

regex is not regular expressions - if using NFA to match then you're matching all alternates simultaneously.

Russ Cox has good pictures explaining idea in 'Regular Expression Search Algorithms' section of <https://swtch.com/~rsc/regexp/regexp1.html>

bear8642on Project Oberon Emulator in JavaScript and Java

>Lola hardware language

Huh - hadn't come across this before but very nice HDL

bear8642on Terrible programming features from the past

> of course recursion is impossible.

Thought PDP-8 was used extensively for lisp at various locations.

Was recursion made possible by allocating memory elsewhere and using spare word as pointer?

bear8642on For the Love of Troff (2020) [pdf]

> the Emacs info reader

Feel Plan 9's Acme editor also an excellent interface

- SEE ALSO section links via plumber (right click to view page)

- Acme's Font command gives flexibility

bear8642on A Brief, Incomplete, and Mostly Wrong History of Programming Languages (2009)

What you mean? It extends til 2003

bear8642on Why you should not use (f)lex, yacc and bison

perhaps because you want LALR or other techniques?

Can't remember why but my Compilers teacher (Adrian Johnstone, Royal Holloway) doesn't like PEGs - think due to parse forest not being generated?

bear8642on Why bother with old technology? (2013)

> all sorts of old protocols, technologies, etc.

Indeed - recently discovered the Transputer and Connection Machine and their attempts to build and code parallel machines!

More modern examples of retro tech include Chuck Moore's GA144 a forth based 144 core asynchronous chip

bear8642on Fitting a FORTH in 512 bytes

Fun after the fact.

type 1 is fun at the time

bear8642on Fitting a FORTH in 512 bytes

Although turing machine tape emulatable via 2 stacks

bear8642on Go 1.17 Beta

Could you expand this? Quite like Acme and wondered what you don't like about it

bear8642on The Unix Game

Seems cool - though feel way to hide welcome pane would be nice as seems unnecessary once started and no obvious way to hide

bear8642on Ask HN: Favorite Blogs by Individuals?

http://www.commandlinefanatic.com/cgi-bin/showpage.cgi?page=... is good deep dive into various topics. Enjoy the gzip explaination

Matt might's 'blog' https://matt.might.net/articles/ is good read about various functional ideas and others

https://aphyr.com/posts/342-typing-the-technical-interview funny post about how complicated balancing a binary tree could be

https://tratt.net/laurie/blog/archive.html some intersting posts about various aspects of programming language tools

bear8642on Clojure by Example (2015)

Found walking through exercises of Clojure Koans useful

bear8642on Forth: Stack-Manipulation Operators

> Forth has almost no syntax

Feel more Forth has no syntax - just space separated words defined either in assembly or other forth words

bear8642on Windows 10 “Sun Valley” will do away with Windows 95 era icons

Feel some of the new ones you have to know what they are - the printer or the CD disc icon(3rd bottom row) both seem to hide the icon they're representing

bear8642on Instant replay: Debugging C and C++ programs with rr

Indeed! Very useful for shell wrote as part of OS course last year.

Compiling with debug (-g in gcc) lets valgrind report which function's allocating lost memory

bear8642on Nano 5.7

you joke, but ed is great if have tiny change to make given compiler output simply just to how fast it loads

bear8642on Nano 5.7

Search replace in nano via "Where is" (^W), "Replace" (^R), "Regexp"(M-R).

bear8642on How to Learn Unix Tools

the yacc and lex tutorial to build hoc is also excellent

bear8642on Prolog for Beginners

Why do you need route?

Can't you just use the roads you've got as the base case and then say

road(X, Z) :- road(X,Y), road(Y,Z)

bear8642on PostScript Language Reference (1999) [pdf]

You're very welcome.

For later exploration, JonesForth <https://github.com/phf/forth/tree/master/x86> is excellent exploration of Forth's internals.

There were quite a few Forth stories a month or so ago if want more resources.

bear8642on PostScript Language Reference (1999) [pdf]

> a green book

Available at site above or via: https://www-cdf.fnal.gov/offline/PostScript/GREENBK.PDF

bear8642on PostScript Language Reference (1999) [pdf]

Leo Brodie's book Starting Forth's good tutorial

bear8642on PostScript Language Reference (1999) [pdf]

Indeed - and believe a green book existed documenting writing a PS printer driver.

Can't find it now but it's not the GREENBK.PDF available in link above, though might peruse that version

bear8642on The On-Line Encyclopedia of Integer Sequences

Thanks for reminding me of this.

It's very useful identifying known patterns and also discovering new patterns by entering random number strings

bear8642on The Cursed Computer Iceberg Meme

>lexicon

This the text editor?

>LISP, or manual garbage collect

This Lisp Machine garbage collection = reboot?