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So much so that you wake up in the morning and thank those who created and/or maintains the software project. Or several times in a day. Or maybe every week or month, which sounds …

I find it interesting that we can think about [simple and complex] mathematical structures. How did we get the ability to do so and why we can do so? I distinguish between mathemat…

This refers to the pic(1) preprocessor to the troff(1) typesetter. Troff is a historical typesetting software with a long history in the Unix ecosystem. Having personally used some…

Then you arrive at questions such as "Why do we exist?", even "Why anything exists at all, what was the need for all of this?" > Why do we feel that we exist? Who does the feeling …

Extra hilarious as I can actually hear the sound of crickets.

What else can be done about it instead of building things, writing down or talking?

Fabrice Bellard is a CTO? Are you talking about this guy?: https://bellard.org

> In C, a read from an uninitialized variable is an unspecified value and is allowed to be any value each time it is read. This is important, because it allows behavior such as laz…

For those people who are thinking about some HTML subset, you can have a look at WebLite: https://weblite.codeberg.page

Try Racket and DrRacket.

Aren't we, now ?

Truly, someone should try out NetBSD here...

Naming things are hard :)

Silly mistakes, famous, funny snippets of code that is/was used in real life. Please provide explanation of why it is memorable to you.

And what's your experience of using such “old” programming language(s)? Here “use” can mean writing new code, debugging/maintaing old code etc.