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CSP. In hardware.

I did a lot of work with transputers and occam in the 1980s and wrote an OS for a machine that used them. The exposure to the CSP way of thinking was a blessing. occam-2 on the oth…

Not to be confused with the other Helios OS - https://github.com/axelmuhr/Helios-NG

https://pkg.go.dev/cmd/go#hdr-Controlling_version_control_wi... Second paragraph.

Lots of good links getting posted. Another interesting resource is the ACM's History of Programming Languages (HOPL) proceedings, https://dl.acm.org/conference/hopl/proceedings

Putting on my "user" hat, a stack trace is a just a long winded way of saying "ABEND" or "core dumped".

I'm still waiting for concurrent COBOL... PERFORM x CONCURRENTLY WITH y BUT NOT WITH z.

They had a functioning compiler and decided to concentrate on other areas and it's not too uncommon for a languages's compiler to NOT be written in that language. Afterall Rust rel…

Same area, many of the same people, but at a different studio, FAME. MSS was a spin off due to various "fights". I did some recording, with Spooner and David Hood, at both places, …

Did some recording there a couple of years back. Not a bad room but the studio itself is mostly a museum these days and our engineer had to do a bit of work to get it functioning w…

size(1) exists to provide the actual information. File sizes are only a rough indicator.

There were others far before Windows. In the 1980s I used Polytron version control system and the MKS port of RCS on MS-DOS.

At home I use buckling springs (Unicomp model M style plugged into an iMac) - I live alone and can make lots of typing noise. In the office its a Filco with some color Cherry switc…

No beard but it would be grey... A variant of this has been my PS1 since the 90s (yes, mostly on workstations with a GUI by then [Sun,NeXT,HPUX etc...]). Unfortunately bash doesn't…

Reminds (old) me of WSFN - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WSFN_(programming_language)

A great engineer and hacker. I've recorded (bass) through his circuits numerous times over the decades. I don't know if it was his idea or not but I always loved the Portico 5042 t…

My Cube cracked the PCBs of two graphics cards before I gave up on it.

Related Ampex patent from 1989 - https://patents.google.com/patent/US5236790A/en

I really wish Go's select had guard clauses. The need to nil channels feels like a hack. However I haven't actually had much need for them but haven't written many things that woul…

I did a lot of occam in the 1980s working with transputer-based machines (I wrote a sort of OS for the system our company was building to target TV/film animation). At the time Inm…

> Text files used ^Z character as end of file marker. But only if the file size wasn't a multiple of the 128-byte block size. Fun!

Not just improvising. Its a bit of old gag...if you make a mistake just do it again and pretend you meant it (if its "outside" claim to be playing jazz).

And Rucker's "The Hacker and the Ants"

This is important and high quality research. It deserves an Ig Noble nomination.

Coming from an occam/transputer background (in the 1980s) I felt goroutines were too low level. Luckily its trivial to add a PAR-like construct via sync.WaitGroup (e.g. github.com/…