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    Comment #48204494

    Related: the drum sound of Bowie’s Low is similar and similarity iconic/influential. It was created in a different way and predates the Gabriel record, being recorded in 1976. Plen…

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    Comment #48106521

    Minor nitpick: inline assembly had been invented already. Indeed it had been implemented and shipped for the Acorn Atom in 1980. The Atom packed a quirky but effective BASIC with a…

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    In the "first look video" Ash Hewson (Affinity CEO) says "“we’ve also got full scripting capability coming very, very soon” (at 21:33). What's said in the video is that this - and …

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    You could just as plausibly say that Swift is a high-ish-level functional-ish language with a modern syntax. Whereas C blows up at runtime, Swift nags-and-whines at compile time - …

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    Comment #33271798

    It's not a great article, but the main line of objection in comments here seems to be "This won't happen, because AI won't do the job well and certainly not better than humans." Sa…

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    Comment #32689907

    Hypercard was this and generated really rich "folk" artefacts. Filemaker ( https://www.claris.com ) is sort of this still. A modern example is Coda ( https://coda.io ) which is see…

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    Comment #31848595

    DOLT vs DO-IT: https://www.folklore.org/StoryView.py?story=Do_It.txt