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Re: Niklaus Wirth has died

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I have used DECALN, which is sometimes useful for testing purpose (especially in full screen, although sometimes even if it isn't). I will want to see support for the PC character set, for EUC character sets (including EUC-TRON), TRON-8 character code, bitmap fonts (including non-Unicode fonts), Xaw-like scrolling and xterm-like selecting, ability to disable receiving (not only sending) 8-bit controls (which should b…

It's a one-liner to fill your screen, and the fraction of people who even know DECALN exist is so small I wouldn't be surprised if the total invocations of DECALN by terminal users in recent decades is smaller than the number of indirect invocations by terminal implementers via vttest. It made sense as a service tool on a physical terminal, not much now. It's not that it's a problem - it's trivial to support. It's ju…

That is good, to have separate components of the codes, that can then be reused. Do you have terminal emulator codes with such things? Then, we can see, and it can easily be modified.

Re: Niklaus Wirth has died

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> wirth was the greatest remaining apostle of simplicity, correctness, and software built for humans to understand; And yet far from the last. Simple, correct, and beautiful software is still being made today. Most of it goes unnoticed, its quiet song drowned out by the cacophony of attention-seeking, complex, brittle behemoths that top the charts. That song never faded, you just need to tune in.

who are today's new great minimalists?

Kartik Agaram [1], The paper about his Mu project [2] presents a rationale for a particular kind of minimalism, and its realization.

1. https://akkartik.name

2. https://akkartik.name/akkartik-convivial-20200315.pdf

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