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Download MS Basic versions

http://www.ojodepez-fanzine.net/network/qbdl/history_of_visual_basic.html

that delivered visual programming to the average programmer/user. The increasing popularity and sophistication of graphical user interfaces (GUIs) led Microsoft to introduce Visua

Against an Increasingly User-Hostile Web - Neustadt.fr

https://neustadt.fr/essays/against-a-user-hostile-web/

runs on ( Ubuntu ), the programming tools used to make it all work ( python , gcc , node.js ...) -- all of these things were created collectively by contributors all around the wo
We are quietly replacing an open web that connects and empowers with one that restricts and commoditizes people. We need to stop it.

How To Become A Hacker

http://www.catb.org/%7Eesr/faqs/hacker-howto.html

it used to include programming in machine language, and didn't until recently involve HTML. But right now it pretty clearly includes the following: 1. Learn how to program. This,

The small web is beautiful

https://benhoyt.com/writings/the-small-web-is-beautiful/

there’s an entire programming subculture called the demoscene that cares about this. They have competitions for the smallest 4KB demos: who can pack the most graphical punch into
A vision for the "small web", small software, and small architectures.

My Personal Principles on Web Design

http://koshka.love/babel/web-design-principles.html

of not allowing any programming languages beyond HTML, CSS, and JavaScript, and that really is all that one needs to cobble together a solid website. JavaScript obviously is compl
An old Web veteran's detailed views on what constitutes good website design, and why.

The Official Propaganda in the DPRK: Ideas and Methods

https://north-korea.narod.ru/propaganda_lankov.htm

world.  The radio programming in North Korea appears very exotic to a foreign visitor. Music alternates with short propaganda information blocks. Every hour begins with the n
The following article is an enlarged and re-workedEnglish version of a chapter from Severnaia Koreia: vchera i segodnia (North Korea: Yesterday and Today), published inRussian in 1

Racket Mode

https://www.racket-mode.com/

use ¶ Racket is a programming language. Racket is also a “language-oriented programming language”. Most Racket source files contain a ‘#lang‘ line. Th
Racket Mode

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

Epistemological Pluralism and the Revaluation of the Concrete

http://papert.org/articles/EpistemologicalPluralism.html

cases of individuals programming computers, we see a concrete and personal approach to materials that runs into conflict with established ways of doing things within the computer

Introduction: Why Lisp?

https://gigamonkeys.com/book/introduction-why-lisp.html

greatest pleasure in programming comes from getting a lot done with code that simply and clearly expresses your intention, then programming in Common Lisp is likely to be about th

The Writings of Leslie Lamport

https://lamport.azurewebsites.net/pubs/pubs.html

Dijkstra's Concurrent Programming Problem On Self-stabilizing Systems On Programming Parallel Computers Parallel Execution on Array and Vector Computers Multiple Byte Processing w

Old, but Interesting Programs

http://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.


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