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1. Hallå Kitteh (clacke@social.heldscal.la)'s status on Thursday, 17-Aug-2017 06:36:58 UTC Hallå Kitteh

   • tekk
   @tekk Yeah, they're targeting the pre-C++ gcc. 4.7 or whatever it is.
   • alanz (alanz@mastodon.land)'s status on Wednesday, 16-Aug-2017 12:53:54 UTC alanz

     • jjg

     @jjg @clacke fyi
     https://mastodon.land/media/_UWkcllzy7IBe43J1gs

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   • Hallå Kitteh (clacke@social.heldscal.la)'s status on Wednesday, 16-Aug-2017 23:16:22 UTC Hallå Kitteh

     • alanz
     • jjg
     @alanz @jjg Never heard of it before now. Never knew there was a Forth home computer.
   • Hallå Kitteh (clacke@social.heldscal.la)'s status on Thursday, 17-Aug-2017 01:09:58 UTC Hallå Kitteh

     • The Forth programming language
     • alanz
     • jjg
     @jjg @alanz Found in the comments: Lots of !forth articles in this 1980 Byte Magazine.
     
     https://archive.org/details/byte-magazine-1980-08
     
     Holy moley, 300 pages? And it apparently came out at least 8 times a year, so I'm guessing it was monthly.
     
     There's a great Microsoft advertisement for their various language implementations for CP/M (no Forth), and a column subtweeting Microsoft for Bill's stance on software piracy. (both somewhere around the page 90 mark, magazine page numbering)
   • Hallå Kitteh (clacke@social.heldscal.la)'s status on Thursday, 17-Aug-2017 01:17:56 UTC Hallå Kitteh

     • alanz
     • jjg
     @jjg @alanz Did you happen to see the conversation on #stage0?
     
     https://octodon.social/@craigmaloney/5279877
     
     It uses a Forth for bootstrapping a LISP, which in turn will be able to to make progressively more generic things.
     
     The #mes project has a mini-scheme that implements a C compiler that can soon compile #tcc well enough to compile #gcc. A future iteration of mes will be using stage0.
     
     This is all useful for building a whole OS from mostly source and just a few hundred bytes of machine code.
   • Hallå Kitteh (clacke@social.heldscal.la)'s status on Thursday, 17-Aug-2017 06:45:08 UTC Hallå Kitteh

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     • tekk
     @tekk
     
     >> I tried using the latest http://repo.or.cz/tinycc.git to build gcc 4.7.0 (one of the latest C versions before it was rewritten in C++)
     
     > Thank you so much for your help, I was able to build gcc using tcc now! Simply amazing!
     
     https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/tinycc-devel/2017-05/msg00103.html
     
     /via https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/guile-user/2017-07/msg00089.html
     
     /via https://octodon.social/users/cwebber/updates/168900
     
     #tinycc #tcc #mes #mescc