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Related, Free Pascal has a text-mode IDE that's supported on most modern platforms.

https://www.freepascal.org

Re:MS OS/2 SDK Document Dump on Saturday January 04, 2020 @04:38PM (#21957773)
Even while running a BBS in the background, too!
An even earlier example is The Prisoner episode "Many Happy Returns". Almost half of the episode is without dialogue.
Re:Ask HN: Examples of reliable software you enjoy using on Wednesday June 29, 2016 @04:30AM (#12000260)
Just curious, but what bugs have you encountered in nvAlt? I switched over for the Collapse Note List function.
Re:Ask HN: Examples of reliable software you enjoy using on Wednesday June 29, 2016 @03:46AM (#12000100)
The Public Domain Korn Shell version 5.2.14.

A rock solid shell that hasn't been (or needed to be) updated in nearly 20 years.

Re:Ask HN: Examples of reliable software you enjoy using on Wednesday June 29, 2016 @03:36AM (#12000063)
nvALT, which is a fork of the Notational Velocity note-taking app on OSX.

Rock solid and very fast!

Re:30 years later, QBasic is still the best on Thursday May 05, 2016 @06:12PM (#11640054)
Yes, I used The Games Factory for many years! It would also create stand-alone installers that would fit in a floppy.
Re:Craig Wright Is Not Satoshi Nakamoto on Monday May 02, 2016 @06:14PM (#11616146)
Charlie Lee of Litecoin shows how it should be done simply:

https://medium.com/@SatoshiLite/satoshilite-1e2dad89a017

Re:Go best practices, six years in on Sunday May 01, 2016 @07:32PM (#11608333)
Possibly because Rob Pike is not a fan of syntax highlighting, calling it juvenile.

https://groups.google.com/forum/#!msg/golang-nuts/hJHCAaiL0s...

Re:Why GNU Emacs? on Sunday February 14, 2016 @06:12PM (#11100459)
Sam user if that counts.
Re:Apple is going to have a tough year on Saturday January 02, 2016 @04:11AM (#10825633)
Yes, I was confused by this as well. I think this author was looking for something bearish, and went with Ben anyway.
Re:How to Set Up a Common Lisp Web Environment on Saturday December 05, 2015 @05:25PM (#10683496)
Never had a problem with SBCL on any VPS provider.
Re:The Linear Algebra Behind Google (2006) [pdf] on Monday July 27, 2015 @12:02AM (#9953257)
In the references there's a link to the original Google description written by Sergey Brin and Larry Page:

http://infolab.stanford.edu/~backrub/google.html

Re:Orson Welles, one of history's great workaholics on Wednesday May 06, 2015 @07:19PM (#9502392)
Othello is a masterpiece.
Re:A Mathematician’s Lament (2002) [pdf] on Tuesday January 06, 2015 @02:36PM (#8846442)
He said that the most beautiful mathematics were that which had no practical applications.

Not sure how he'd feel that now that his own specialty of Number Theory has turned out to be very practical.

Re:Building C Projects on Wednesday November 05, 2014 @05:58PM (#8564773)
By contrast, the Plan 9 C compiler does use the header when linking. Header files contain a prama statement with library name, removing the need for linker flags.

See: http://plan9.bell-labs.com/sys/doc/comp.html

Re:Tezos: A Self-Amending Crypto-Ledger [pdf] on Monday August 04, 2014 @08:25PM (#8134857)
"Tezos" is not a reference to Leah. The name "L M Goodman" is the reference.

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