fizfaz

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by fizfaz 2y ago
Does anyone remember Servant by Andy Hertzfeld? Which kind of blended the Finder with ResEdit, showing the resources just like it shows folders and files. Allowing to manipulate them the same way, for example copying via drag'n'dr
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by fizfaz 2y ago
> The sheer oddity + lack of real world example code floating around made it feel impenetrable not sure if I understand you, but you have the code of the whole system at your fingertips. Which is certainly "real world" because
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by fizfaz 2y ago
https://archive.org/details/dr_dobbs_journal_vol_05_201803/p... to read it in context. It appeared in the "All-CP/M Issue!" of Dr. Dobbs
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by fizfaz 3y ago
Leo Brodie attended a https://www.forth2020.org Meeting and talked about Thinking Forth: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wr0uxJTvmsE&t=2998s
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by fizfaz 3y ago
He sometimes joins meetings of the Forth 2020-Group. The last one was meeting #40 on Nov. 11. 2023: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M14tCZiEPkg&t=11670s
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by fizfaz 4y ago
IIRC It was "web first": See the presentation from Erich Gamma: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/events/visual-studio-code-... approx. minute 6.
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Apple Big Pink #3 (1990) [pdf](bitsavers.informatik.uni-stuttgart.de)
72 points by fizfaz 4y ago|39 comments
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by fizfaz 4y ago
Interesting historical document describing Pink which later evolved into Taligent. They even planned a toolkit for collaboration (page 345ff) :O
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by fizfaz 4y ago
you can play several versions at archive.org: https://archive.org/details/software?query=glider&and[]=subj...
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by fizfaz 7y ago
some context: http://www.wirfs-brock.com/allen/posts/866
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by fizfaz 7y ago
the linked source-archive (at the bottom of the page) compiles without problems on a modern OS, or do you mean an application using it?
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by fizfaz 7y ago
this one: https://www.oreilly.com/library/view/masterminds-of-programm... ? Very interesting interview indeed.
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by fizfaz 11y ago
BYTE issue "The Forth language" contains an article by Chuck Moore "The evolution of Forth, an Unusual Language": https://archive.org/stream/byte-magazine-1980-08/1980_08_BYT...
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by fizfaz 12y ago
out of interest, which modern stacks allow "live coding" your application? That is: no need to restart for various changes you make. You are playing/changing/creating with the objects that make your aplication. I am curr
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by fizfaz 13y ago
I really enjoyed his presentation about writing the bittorrent client in haskell comparing it to an erlang implementation: http://www.infoq.com/presentations/Combinatorrent-Haskell-ca...
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by fizfaz 13y ago
Just wanted to mention that Thinking Forth "A Language and Philosophy for Solving Problems" (also from Leo Brodie) is available here: http://thinking-forth.sourceforge.net I learned a lot from this book.