It is mind-blowing when you have some sort of idea of how complex an endeavor it is to create programming IDEs and UIs, and to see in one document how many man-hours must have gone into them and their iterations over the years.
Gallery of programming UIs
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#22Wow.. Google Drive got swamped!
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#23Currently, Google Drive is telling me: "Wow, this file is really popular! It might be unavailable until the crowd clears. Try again." (Page title: "Too Many Requests") I didn't even know Google Drive had a throttling mode.
I didn't even know Google Drive had a throttling mode.
Right. That seems like something from the era of 1990s hosting services with very limited capacity.
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#24I'm missing a lot of the ones I used. Though most of them weren't that different from normal texteditors in a terminal. Well, they were actually editors in a terminal...
Cobol on an IBM AS/400
RPG also on an IBM AS/400 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_RPG
Devpac Assembler https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HiSoft_Systems
STOS Basic https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/STOS_BASIC
PLC https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Programmable_logic_controller
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#25It is mind-blowing when you have some sort of idea of how complex an endeavor it is to create programming IDEs and UIs, and to see in one document how many man-hours must have gone into them and their iterations over the years.
This is also something that I find very impressive. Everywhere you look, the same thought comes up. All these buildings in the city have been built by someone sometime with so much effort. Then again, I think: maybe not so surprising after all if you consider that 100bn humans have ever lived. That’s a lot of man-hours available there
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#26No Delphi? No Visix Vibe?
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#27At one stage on the eve journey they were showing a sort of wiki/database thing that I wanted to use very much. It seemed like it'd be fantastic for iteratively organising the kind of information you encounter in your day to day life. Unfortunately that version of eve never saw the light of day as far as I know. Does anyone know of anything that works similarly?
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#28Thanks for posting this! This is the kind of content I love to see on HN. Wow, Visual Basic... It takes me back to my AOL proggie days!
If you're feeling nostalgic - just create some VBA, amazing how it's hardly changed... This picture taken from Word 2016 a few seconds ago: https://i.imgur.com/w3qX8Oa.png
Indeed VBA is a very curious phenomenon. It is cool from the retro-lover point of view (and nostalgia makes me enjoy having to code it occasionally in the real life) yet a horrible atavism from the modern developer point of view. The built-in code editor is not much smarter than Notepad is and the language itself is a ridiculous cargo-cult-level OOP imitation with no real OOP nor functional (wouldn't these be of great use in Excel?) concepts, just a slightly face-lifted QBasic capable of defining simple algorithms and interfacing native code. I can hardly understand why it still hasn't been phased-out and replaced with Python or something like that.
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#29Lively!
LivelyKernel (2008): https://www.lively-kernel.org/
lively.next (2017): https://lively-next.org
cloxp (2015): http://cloxp.github.io/cloxp-intro.html
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#30At one stage on the eve journey they were showing a sort of wiki/database thing that I wanted to use very much. It seemed like it'd be fantastic for iteratively organising the kind of information you encounter in your day to day life. Unfortunately that version of eve never saw the light of day as far as I know. Does anyone know of anything that works similarly?
You don't have a screenshot, or any more leads on finding it do you? It sounds like an interesting concept but I'm having trouble finding an image of it.