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It isn't, but there is a poetry mode for emacs[0] and a mode for managing Python's poetry (which is a tool for dependency management)[1] [0]: https://www.bobnewell.net/publish/35ye…

I had a look at the repo in https://sourceforge.net/p/recoil/code/ci/master/tree/ - I think the meat of it is a giant file called 'recoil.fu' (22481 lines long) [edit] it is writte…

I believe they were based on Miranda[0] (1985) but they have a longer history than that, maybe under a different name. [0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miranda_(programming_langu…

I fondly remember using sites like this to download stuff (ok, apogee games mostly!) in the 1990s. I could FTP to the university VAX which would exceed my 'soft quota' of disk spac…

I think https://wiki.c2.com/?PlsLanguage is informative. PL/S was more suitable for writing low-level code due to some extra options and it didn't need a full runtime environment. …

For comparison FreeRTOS[0] is, at minimum, about 9000 LOC[1] at least according to the article (I don't know when it was written), so 2000 lines is indeed pretty small. [0]: https:…

Are there, or have there been, devices where one might have seen Inferno running 'in the wild' e.g. digital signs, PoS terminals etc.?

Also you need a template to drop over the function keys. How would that work on a modern keyboard!? https://cdn.hackaday.io/files/1604126863067008/UI__3_WordPer...

I have an OpenBSD install in a VM for the reason cited by ninjin: > Personally, a different userland and directory structure usually also beats out Linux-isms. I just upgraded from…

This must be really disappointing for you - I think most people would agree you didn't break the 'spirit' of the rules even if you did maybe break the letter of the rules. It would…

Imagination Technology's Creator Ci20 was a MIPS board for hackers released in 2014. Despite the subsequent decline of MIPS, people are still improving Linux support for this board…

I thought this was an enjoyable and informative article but [0] > As a personal comparison, my total lifetime output ... has been... [78 million words] And, yes, I’ll train a bot f…

There was a thing about tying shoelaces a few years back, for example this from the BBC [1]. Apparently I was doing it wrong but anyway I prefer the extra back exercise I get from …

Would it be an option to compile your own versions of `ls` et al., maybe from the Darwin source (if available, I don't know) or one of the BSDs? Does what you're trying to do depen…

Is there a list of JEPs which includes the affiliation of the person proposing them? It would be interesting to see how many get approved. I would expect it's a lot easier to make …

Also Blade Runner reference

Can you just check, I don't think the line *p=1 will even compile given the definition of p

"Bootstrap" from which we get "booting up" and "reboot" is another one[0] [0]: https://www.etymonline.com/search?q=bootstrap

Is the aspect ratio part (needing to stretch from 8:5 to 4:3) because the IBM PC didn't have square pixels?

I don't know if he invented it, but I always associate that phrase with John Gruber, e.g. https://daringfireball.net/linked/2011/01/04/battelle-apple

I initially thought the name came from one letter after APL but, no, that would be BQM. You can verify this using the language itself > "APL"+1 "BQM" Overall looks interesting and …

I was initially thrown by the example code which doesn't look like C++ at all: main: () -> int = { ... } I learned this is 'Cpp2' which was also discussed by Herb Sutter recently[0…

Thanks. I have to look this up every time (I'm in the UK) so for those like me, 5th graders are aged 10-11 normally.