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madhadron - The seven programming ur-languages

https://madhadron.com/programming/seven_ur_languages.html

architecture computers, going back to EDVAC and the first Univacs were of this form, as were all early attempts at higher level languages, starting with Grace Hopper’s A-0 and goi

Freewheeling Apps

http://akkartik.name/freewheeling-apps

gotten accustomed on computers). Demonstrates the sorts of things lines2.love makes much easier to accomplish. notebook.love : A rudimentary computational notebook where you can w

CipherSaber Home Page

https://ciphersaber.gurus.org/

come with all DOS based computers, is suitable. It can still be found on the Microsoft Windows '95 CD-ROM in the OTHER\OLDMSDOS directory, and on the Microsoft Windows '98 CD-ROM
Fight the crypto ban by learning how to write your own strong encryption program.

The Retrocomputing Museum

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

language, semi-object-oriented with LISP-like syntax. A superset of the infamous DDL (Dungeon Definition Language). Available for Unix, MS-DOS, Amiga and Acorn. You can find other
A museum of archaic computer languages

Bit permutations

http://programming.sirrida.de/bit_perm.html

as was done on ancient computers. Today only base 2 (i.e. bits) is used, and this is what is crucially needed for all bit operations. If signed numbers are present, it is assumed
An essay about bit permutations in software

Chez Scheme vs. SBCL: a comparison :: Elmord's Magic Valley

https://elmord.org/blog/?entry=20191114-sbcl-chez

Elmord's Magic Valley Computers, languages, and computer languages. Às vezes em Português , sometimes in English . Chez Scheme vs. SBCL: a comparison 2019-11-14 11:06 -0300. Tags:

Ken Silverman's Build Engine Page

http://www.advsys.net/ken/build.htm

this. I don't install computers for a living. I usually have to resort to good old trial and error to get stuff like this to work. About the sound patches: They only fix a crashin

Big Ball of Mud

https://www.laputan.org/mud/mud.html

in turn, by modern object-oriented languages and powerful refactoring tools. Proponents of extreme programming portray it as placing minimal emphasis on planning and up-front desi
While much attention has been focused on high-level software architectural patterns,what is, in effect, the de-facto standard software architecture is seldom discussed. Thispaper e

Old, but Interesting Programs

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

But I could see that computers could do more than compute. I tried writing a program to generate anagrams. That did not go well. Larry Tessler (a less-known Tesler ). advised me t
Thomas Dickey has been writing software programs since 1970, and discusses here some of the more interesting ones.

Don’t Use ISO/IEC 14977 Extended Backus-Naur Form (EBNF)

https://dwheeler.com/essays/dont-use-iso-14977-ebnf.html

was that there were computers and typewriters (!) that did not have some of the characters such as “{“ and “}”, so alternatives such as “(:” an
A description of why you should not use ISO

GNU's Who - GNU Project - Free Software Foundation (FSF)

http://www.gnu.msn.by/people/people.html

nothing to do with computers. Thomas was renamed from Michael Bushnell in 1996. Robert J. Chassell is speaking on free software topics and working to bring better documentation to

Stories I Will Not Write

https://www.lord-enki.net/stories.html

of high-speed optical computers; lets them loose in a public fountain. A group of ten people is sent on a one way trip to colonize Mars. There is an accident on the way, and they


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