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Software Engineering Humor

http://www.cs.uni.edu/~mccormic/humor.html

operating system and C programming language created by them is an elaborate April Fools prank kept alive for over 30 years. Speaking at the recent UnixWorld Software Development F

Voyager Spacecraft and Fortran 5

http://www.geonius.com/writing/other/voyager.html

ground system, programming in Fortran 77 on VAX/VMS minicomputers. The mission-control developers on the other half of our cubicle farm at NASA's Goddard Spaceflight Center progra
Voyagers NOT programmed in Fortran 5

Loper OS » Seven Laws of Sane Personal Computing

http://www.loper-os.org/?p=284

of a high-level programming language. Note that what the silicon actually does to achieve this is irrelevant so long as no programmer need ever be made aware of just how it does i

Loper OS » Engelbart's Violin

http://www.loper-os.org/?p=861

the other hand, "adult" programming, seen from afar, is enough like child-programming to set the computer-enthusiast child up for just this kind of exceptionally cruel bait-and-sw

Server Operating Systems Technical Comparison

http://www.osdata.com/

OSdata.com Free Computer Programming Text Book Programming computers using any programming language free book on UNIX/Linux System Administration Teach Yourself UNIX/Linux System A
A technical answer to the question: how does Rhapsody stack up as a server operating system?

The Vision Thing #50: Information Poet

http://www.duntemann.com/VisionThing50.htm

because they were programming languages, where abstraction is an optional ingredient. The point in programming is generating code, not beautiful structures of meaning, and if you

Real Programmers Don't Use Pascal

http://www.pbm.com/~lindahl/real.programmers.html

who understood computer programming, and the Quiche Eaters were the ones who didn't. A real computer programmer said things like "DO 10 I=1,10" and "ABEND" (they actually talked i

Floating Point Math

https://0.30000000000000004.com/

is a statically typed programming language for scientific computations with first class support for physical dimensions and units. 🔗 Nushell 🔗 Nushell .1 + .2 0.30000000000000004

The Retrocomputing Museum

http://www.catb.org/retro/

in the history of programming languages. More Algol68 resources can be found at the Software Preservation Group . ADVSYS ADVenture SYStem, another adventure-writing system by Davi
A museum of archaic computer languages

Loper OS » "Cryostat" Genesis.

http://www.loper-os.org/?p=3791

family. The decay of programming therefore seems to have happened in (at least) two stages: first, the sacrificing of homoiconism and macros, and second, the death of the "managed

Old, but Interesting Programs

https://invisible-island.net/personal/oldprogs.html

array. In my initial programming class, we used a 1620 model I, with 12,000 characters of memory. Midway through that year, the college purchased a model II from a neighboring col
Thomas Dickey has been writing software programs since 1970, and discusses here some of the more interesting ones.

https://www.humprog.org/~stephen/

https://www.humprog.org/~stephen/

has mostly focused on programming languages and the systems that support them—including language runtimes and operating systems. Micro-blog and calendar December 2025. A new


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