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Although the language i have been working on includes time travel as a built-in feature, i find that i almost never use it, because in a deductive language, it is not that easy to …

Most of his predictions are nonsense, and show a lack of understanding of the logical foundations of modern computing. His assertion that instruction sets are "obsolete" is absurd.…

This is a handy dandy color picker utility program, written as a web app. It is designed for laptop/desktop use, doesn't fit on a mobile device. You can select a starting color by …

To use the color picker, click on a color swatch, and it will copy the color name in the format selected to the clipboard. the source code for this color picker is on github https:…

yes, it is a higher level language, that is ideal for making web apps.

The Multics operating system, which was funded by the DARPA at MIT's Project Mac for 10 years, was superior to Unix from a technical standpoint, and it used segmentation. http://pa…

no, there is a typo in the video. The SDK is the best authority for Beads examples, as those are checked on each build for any errors. We have about 20 sample programs, some large …

Excel achieves its robustness (and it hardly ever crashes) by protecting the user against arithmetic errors, and circular reasoning. Excel doesn't offer infinite precision arithmet…

Meteor has a lot of users, and is still around. The problem with Meteor is that it uses JS, and that language has a lot of problems. Typescript has clobbered meteor, as people have…

if i can find a better cross platform delivery mechanism than AIR that isn't too far away from JS, i will switch, as there are a fair number of Linux-based programmers out there. S…

gee thanks for the kind words. You wrote one of the best comments i read.

The problem with both Swift and Kotlin, is that you must use libraries to draw and handle events, which typically makes it tied to a single OS (Swift only really being used in OSX …

I don't find Red particularly readable, it is a bit too dense for my taste. But some people will love it, and they have a very active Gitter group, and they are very nice people. R…

many people, myself included, view Web Assembly has a future virtual machine that is universally available across hardware, ending the hassle of making specific executables for eac…

Neo4J has a souped SQL language they call Cypher to perform queries. But since Beads data structures are typically arranged in tree form, one typically uses the loop construct to i…

I was kicked out of the future of coding chat group by Ivan Reese, who exercised his cancel culture powers to permanently ban someone for daring to say that Steve Jobs had cojones …

I just updated the program to allow arbitrary arrays of words and factors for division, so now it is a fizz-buzz-jazz version of the program, and it gets even shorter once you go t…

Ah, i see i forgot to update the comment when i changed to one day so i could test it easier... thanks for pointing that out, will correct.

Okay, i didn't know you had to put in spaces in HN comments to get it to format, here is the regular expression in classic Unix style versus Beads style for the IPv4 address (1.2.3…

Compared to HTML/CSS/JS, Beads is much simpler. You can learn Beads in probably under 10 hours, while CSS takes at least 100 hours to master. Most of the older popular languages li…

I don't see similarities with COBOL other than Beads has a low percentage of punctuation, but that is from imitating Python's indent-significant code structure style. COBOL generat…

Beads does not replace Excel, but it can close the gap between Excel and the popular programming languages, which have a great deal of unnecessary complexity in them. For example, …

In practice any JS programmer will find that the use of the undefined value is very familiar. In Beads it is abbreviated to U as it is used constantly, because the default value of…