Notices by awg (awg@gnusocial.de)
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awg (awg@gnusocial.de)'s status on Friday, 01-Sep-2017 02:36:07 UTC 
awg
A pair of tits. #nonraptors https://gnusocial.de/attachment/4250356 -
awg (awg@gnusocial.de)'s status on Tuesday, 15-Aug-2017 03:32:22 UTC
awg
!forth in a conventional compiler (even in Forth), rules about the use of plaintext syntax and whitespace are used to help the compiler determine the programmer's intentions in his/her code. this makes for a fundamentally simpler editor but a more complex compiler responsible not only for generating executable code but policing the programmer for unambiguous input.
in colorForth(/ArrayForth), the editor employs colour as syntax and source is packed in a form readily understandable by the compiler while the programmer enters it. this makes for a more complex editor but fundamentally a simpler compiler, as the latter -- no longer necessarily responsible for trying to determine programmer's intentions -- now only processes unambiguous directives given in the packed code (eg, so begins a new word, this word is to be run when this source block is compiled, this is the name of a variable, etc).
there are not many computing devices still in existence that don't second-guess their operators. -
awg (awg@gnusocial.de)'s status on Wednesday, 02-Aug-2017 04:45:46 UTC
awg
@dirb @dt I recommend it! in a related vein, the documentation of the GA144 might also make for fun reading, since this is still in production. http://www.greenarraychips.com/
There are also some nice videos to be found in the ArrayForth Institute part of GA's website which introduces the instruction set and using ArrayForth. ArrayForth(/colorForth) is a very unusual Forth. -
awg (awg@gnusocial.de)'s status on Tuesday, 01-Aug-2017 06:05:25 UTC
awg
@dirb @dt the longer answer is that most Forths people have tried are those hosted within another OS. however, if you've ever tried a standalone Forth, or even one hosted on a Forth CPU, Forth's elegance bourne through brutal reductionism is simply breathtaking. in the words of one prominent Forth advocate, it's "Forth all the way down!", and it is true -- from the highest level of abstraction right down to the instruction set. -
awg (awg@gnusocial.de)'s status on Friday, 28-Jul-2017 01:50:12 UTC
awg
@admiralbell @clacke said it better than me, but don't overstate AT&T's influence. if anything, AT&T's licensing proved a firm impediment to UNIX's adoption at a time when practically everyone wanted to use it. the eager embrace of BSD and its derivatives, and eventually even Linux, was a convoluted and inevitable outcome of the "outsized influence" of a company bent on regulating UNIX rather than promoting it. -
awg (awg@gnusocial.de)'s status on Saturday, 08-Jul-2017 08:52:48 UTC
awg
@koz Even before the shenanigans with Windows 8 and 10, I personally considered Microsoft to be criminally negligent as a market leader: they've cost uncountable numbers of people uncountable hours of their lives with crashes and lost work, tending/maintenance/reinstalls, and investment as developers in learning asinine development frameworks. Money and scientific results have been miscalculated at even the largest banks and scientific institutions due to numerical calculations errors in their software (Excel) that were not addressed even after concerns were brought to their attention. Idiotic security problems year after year after year have cost people their privacy, livelihood, and sometimes even their lives. In short, this company has cost the world money and time on a scale that is unfathomable, and Mr. Gates dares call himself a Philanthropist? -
awg (awg@gnusocial.de)'s status on Tuesday, 07-Mar-2017 17:31:27 UTC
awg
I've been getting the itch to pull out my VLF receivers and go on a day trip, ... (See: http://www.auroralchorus.com/)
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