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Indeed - there was post recently about port to Lua which want to investigate further

Thought there's extension enabling JVM tail optimization?

Appears the 80486 can be connected to the S100 bus directly given ability to read from adjustable size databus.

This means effectively an x86 style cpu can be part of a simple computer design

Excellent ideas

>connect a message back to the parent message - if it was a response

Assuming you've got a long list of timestamped messages, how do you identify which messages are continuations of old threads and which ones are starting a new conversation?

Nice! Bit confused on link to TSP but cool!

even more extreme are ZISC: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/No_instruction_set_computing

>a 1-bit processor isn't very exciting

Very different order of magnitude but wasn't the connection machine single bit based?

Sounds like you had an excellent romp = was scheme taught with SICP?

Lambda calculus' anonymous functions are fairly simple but massively powerful - try this page? <https://www.inf.fu-berlin.de/lehre/WS03/alpi/lambda.pdf>

To confirm, that Stack Exchange?

>"high" vs "low" fantasy

Thought distinction (originally at least) was whether fantasy happening on imagined realm or here on Earth?

He taught Tom Scott too: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zOwP0KUlnZg

Found best line was to remember cuneiform is strokes into something soft, not ink as we do now

Indeed - was confused what elements of struct were on line 2.

Thanks for explaining

Can't tell if you're being earnest or funny. Care to say why?

>rather than a notebook

Enjoyed these notepads (http://www.computinghistory.org.uk/det/46261/Floppy-Disk-Not...) for quick scribbles.

More substantial then post-its yet pages easy pull out

>test first it wouldn't have been half as dodgy.

Feel part of this, in my very little experience, is with tests focus is getting smallest thing working so less to go wrong

odd Windows gave you that - believe \r was Mac's standard at one point…

Indeed! Their book Elements Of Programming Style is also a fun short read

Found Kernighan and Plauger's Elements of Programming Style useful - interesting to see how many of their comments on Fortran and PL/I code still remain very valid problems.

Their further book Software Tools in Pascal I found inspiring (along with SICP) as they show how you can build very powerful and useful tools from small modules slotted together - SICP showed me this in the extreme with chapter 2 ending with an implementation of a full numeric tower

for the Nand2Tetris course

Second New Statesman always fascinating perspectives on current affairs

>I'm not sure who GJS is…

Gerald Jay Sussman

My immediate thought given title

Thanks for this - very interesting small article

Second hand bookshops are amazing things - sometimes goldmines can be found!

Would you mind explaining why it didn't take off?

Imagine problem of domain but something definite would be nice as having trouble finding anything

Thanks

Indeed and that's what Plan9 enables you to do

>Working through the nand2tetris project

Done various sections of this and would heartily agree with how illuminating working through the project's been

would you care to elaborate on which ones are which?

And that's the way they're shown in K&R2

Whilst Pike contributed to Unix it was Thompson's and Ritchie's invention - at least originally