Thank you for sharing this!
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tidalcycles is a music programming language strudel is an implementation for the web
For example, here's a Stranger Things inspired song in strudel:
https://strudel.cc/?jq8RmPcjADF9#c2V0Y3BzKDAuNyk7CgpwMTogbig...
> I really would like you to contrast that with what you have to do with HTML on the Internet. Think about it. HTML on the Internet has gone back to the dark ages because it presupposes that there should be a browser that should understand its formats. This has to be one of the worst ideas since MS-DOS. [Laughter] This is really a shame. It's maybe what happens when physicists decide to play with computers, I'm not sure. [Laughter] In fact, we can see what's happend to the Internet now, is that it is gradually getting—There are two wars going on. There's a set of browser wars which are 100 percent irrelevant. They're basically an attempt, either at demonstrating a non-understanding of how to build complex systems, or an even cruder attempt simply to gather territory. I suspect Microsoft is in the latter camp here. You don't need a browser, if you followed what this Staff Sergeant in the Air Force knew how to do in 1961. You just read it in. It should travel with all the things that it needs, and you don't need anything more complex than something like X Windows. Hopefully better. But basically, you want to be able to distribute all of the knowledge of all the things that are there, and in fact, the Internet is starting to move in that direction as people discover ever more complex HTML formats, ever more intractable. This is one of these mistakes that has been recapitulated every generation. It's just simply not the way to do it.
I think it's quite amazing in that it's basically the scripting language for dotnet. I love that it allows for interactive usage of dotnet libraries.
To me it has the feel of a lot of the dynamic languages from the past, but in a framework that acknowledges types.
I've been using it for finance/economic data stuff lately. For example:
https://github.com/dharmatech/net-liquidity.ps1
The only downside is a lack of a Pandas-like library for it, so I occasionally reach for Python for larger datasets.
Happy Thanksgiving.
You're right; there was a pretty good vision for the future within IBM back then. It just didn't catch on.
Can you tell us more about that commercial project you developed?
https://github.com/dharmatech/executable-tutorials/blob/main...
These days, I've been using PowerShell for economy data and some options stuff:
If you hadn't gone with Scheme, what's another language you'd have considered for this project?
I'm surprised we still don't have OS shells which are closer to what the Symbolics Lisp Machine had in the 80s.
Every once in a while, I look around to see if there are any projects working on something like this for modern OSes.
So though I'd ask here... Does anyone know of any current projects like this?
Thanks!
https://twitter.com/dharmatrade/status/1553059401975533568?t...
Video demo:
https://bluishcoder.co.nz/2020/04/18/fun-factor-libraries.ht...
https://archive.org/details/hypercard_compileit-251-working-...