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Arguably this started in the mainframe world in 1969, with IBM "unbundling" software and services from hardware sales, after the US government launched an antitrust suit against th…

Some patterns in the GoF book only apply to C++/Java as they were in 1994, but I don't see any reason why other languages would have no useful patterns. The Linux kernel (C) is ful…

If you are ok with the performance you can obtain from an FPGA, you could do it now. Look at FPGA hardware-software co-design and related stuff. If you mean, in general, for the ha…

And the FPGA is a modern day equivalent to an ULA. If they could have put all of the chips in a single programmable one, they would.

I'm old enough to have seen the "written in lisp", "written in ruby", "written in javascript" eras, among others. It's natural.

I remember the books on undocumented functionality like https://archive.org/details/Undocumented_DOS

For me, the "human-readable" part is key. It's not just that the output is e.g. javascript, but that it is more or less human-readable with about the same organization as the origi…

'Was' is more likely. The list is from 2003, and if FORTH Inc, the (only? biggest?) remaining forth company hasn't updated it...

What's remarkable about Infocom's z-machine is the level of sophistication and polish vs the intended application, maybe unsurprising coming from MIT graduates with access to a PDP…

"Well, Steve [Jobs], I think there's more than one way of looking at it. I think it's more like we both had this rich neighbor named Xerox and I broke into his house to steal the T…

Yep, if you have in one hand "Inside Windows NT" by Helen Custer (or one of its successors, "Windows Internals"[0]) and on the other "VMS Internals and Data Structures"[1]... [0]: …

Like any other discussion of this kind[1] I think this one will go nowhere because 1) the question doesn't have a black and white answer, it's a sliding scale. 2) almost no one is …

The most similar thing to a "static" Prolog would be Mercury[0] or Turbo Prolog[1]. OTOH, if you want an embed-able logic programming library there is the mini/microKanren family[2…

VxWorks, LynxOS or RTEMS. RTEMS is open source.

I mean, it's fun and interesting bullshit that cheats a lot. I'm sure that you could emulate a MIPS using a one-bit processor like the MC14500[0] with enough supporting hardware, r…

Months ago I found this presentation on youtube, "Re-architecting SWIS for X86-64"[0], about how VMS was ported from VAX to Alpha to Itanium to x86 that did not have the same AST b…

I remember reading those books (ok, it was the 4.3 BSD edition instead of 4.4) alongside Bach's "The Design of the Unix Operating System" and Uresh Vahalia's "UNIX internals: the n…

And then we send them to Jupiter. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Victory_Unintentional

Occam looks like a concurrent Pascal, not like a Forth. The transputer had a 3-element hardware stack but it was used more like a cache for the workspace (kind of the memory stack)…

Just for the moment, consider the idea of implementing the requirements shown in the figure using a network of connected microcomputers, one microcomputer per bubble. Structured An…

You are right, but in this case I have some sympathy for the argument. If all the technical terms in one methodology (scrum, sprint, velocity, commitment, ...) look like they were …

No, that would be just a component of this system. It looks more like "Distributed OSGi done right" or CORBA's endgame as prophesied by Grady Booch in the 90s. Historically these k…

Depending on the meaning of "small-scale kafka", both RabbitMQ and redis do support streams.

For the tooling part, I suppose it's something like a "golden path"[1] where you have predefined templates from which the developers may choose the most appropriate for their probl…

I have no strong feelings about PRs (usually). I was acting as devil's advocate to try to answer supremekurt question in a positive way (others have pointed out the negative ways) …