The Mouse Programming Language
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The Mouse Programming Language
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Re: The Mouse Programming Language
#2This is a cool little language, seemingly deserving ports to other CPUs than Z80.
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#3don't see why you would you would use this over FORTH, which is IMHO much more readable and widely available on CP/M - or you can easily write your own.
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#4I actually own the book for this language. Found it in an obscure corner of the local technical bookstore. It was not placed with all of the other computer books.
Just picked it up because of my fascination with programming languages.
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#5Honestly, a port to a modern architecture, with more standard looking characters (like using # for comments instead of ~ and \n for newline instead of ! ) would be pretty interesting... It's amazing what that people used to be able to do with such limitations. 2k! I can barely make a CRUD app fit in 2G
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#6(2020)
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#7oh cool mouse!
I wrote a very small interpreter (incomplete) for a build what you want capstone project. almost everyone wrote a website or some web app but I chose to write this in C and it was one of the projects I had a lot of fun on
I'll actually go back and complete it
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#8Honestly, a port to a modern architecture, with more standard looking characters (like using # for comments instead of ~ and \n for newline instead of ! ) would be pretty interesting... It's amazing what that people used to be able to do with such limitations. 2k! I can barely make a CRUD app fit in 2G
That 2k would've cost ~$130 in early 1975, roughly $750 in 2024 dollars.
We have the EEs to thank for making the price of bloat inconsequential.
https://jcmit.net/memoryprice.htm
https://www.minneapolisfed.org/about-us/monetary-policy/infl...
Re: The Mouse Programming Language
#9don't see why you would you would use this over FORTH, which is IMHO much more readable and widely available on CP/M - or you can easily write your own.
Maybe the implementation is smaller than a typical FORTH?
For instance the FORTH implementation I'm somewhat familiar with (on the KC85 8-bit home computer) was an 8 KByte ROM module, which was packed to the brim - and it wasn't a luxurious FORTH by any means. This Mouse compiler seems to fit into 2 KBytes.
Re: The Mouse Programming Language
#10don't see why you would you would use this over FORTH, which is IMHO much more readable and widely available on CP/M - or you can easily write your own.
Maybe the implementation is smaller than a typical FORTH? For instance the FORTH implementation I'm somewhat familiar with (on the KC85 8-bit home computer) was an 8 KByte ROM module, which was packed to the brim - and it wasn't a luxurious FORTH by any means. This Mouse compiler seems to fit into 2 KBytes.
Can't remember but have read you can bootstrap a forth interpreter from an amazingly low number of bytes. Maybe more of theoretical interest than practical but still.