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Re:Managing Classic Mac OS Resources in ResEdit on Sunday July 21, 2024 @04:59AM (#41023567)
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'drop etc.

http://bitsavers.org/pdf/apple/mac/Servant_A_New_Shell_for_t...

Re:Pharo 12 on Friday April 26, 2024 @10:02AM (#40169536)
> 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 you are running it :)

Re:The History of CP/M (1980) [txt] on Tuesday April 09, 2024 @01:16PM (#39981635)
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
Leo Brodie attended a https://www.forth2020.org Meeting and talked about Thinking Forth: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wr0uxJTvmsE&t=2998s
Re:BigForth on Monday January 08, 2024 @11:10AM (#38914045)
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
IIRC It was "web first": See the presentation from Erich Gamma: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/events/visual-studio-code-... approx. minute 6.
Re:Apple Big Pink #3 (1990) [pdf] on Friday September 23, 2022 @06:36AM (#32950100)
Interesting historical document describing Pink which later evolved into Taligent. They even planned a toolkit for collaboration (page 345ff) :O
Re:Apple Interview – 1995 on Tuesday July 26, 2022 @08:00AM (#32237094)
you can play several versions at archive.org: https://archive.org/details/software?query=glider&and[]=subj...
Re:JavaScript: The First 20 Years on Friday March 13, 2020 @07:45AM (#22566491)
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?
Re:Running Forth Unikernels on Tuesday April 02, 2019 @05:40AM (#19552414)
this one: https://www.oreilly.com/library/view/masterminds-of-programm... ? Very interesting interview indeed.
Re:Forth – The Early Years (1991) on Monday August 31, 2015 @08:18AM (#10146464)
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...

Re:If Smalltalk Is So Good Why Does Nobody Use It on Tuesday November 11, 2014 @12:44PM (#8591098)
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 currently doing mostly Objective-C-programming in Xcode, which is a rather simple IDE in this respect.

In the past I used more java, but at this time only simple changes were possible live (using Eclipse back then), for a lot of others I had to compile and restart anyway.

Re:Haskell vs. Erlang for bittorent clients on Saturday January 04, 2014 @09:13AM (#7011076)
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...
Re:Starting Forth – the classic Forth language tutorial on Thursday June 20, 2013 @04:49AM (#5910950)
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.