Applying Minilanguages

http://www.catb.org/esr/writings/taoup/html/ch08s02.html

associated with Apple computers. It was cloned under license terms very close to open-source in 1988, and has since become the de-facto standard for printer control under Unix. A

The unix programming environment

http://www.talisman.org/unix/burgess-guide.html

well on large scale computers (with many processors) and small computers which fit in your suitcase! All of the basic mechanisms required of a multi-user operating system are pres

Stroustrup: FAQ

https://www.stroustrup.com/bs_faq.html

of EC++? C++ got its Object-Oriented concepts from Smalltalk? Do you really recommend Ada over C++ for larger projects? Would you compare C++ to "some language"? Others

inside javascriptcore's low-level interpreter — wingolog

http://wingolog.org/archives/2012/06/27/inside-javascriptcores-low-level-interpreter

america compilers computers concurrency cps ecmascript garbage collection gc gnome gnu gstreamer guadec guile hacks igalia javascript meta music namibia python random scheme spain

Cryptography Amicus Brief 10/96

https://archive.epic.org/crypto/export_controls/amicus_brief.html

mathematicians and computerscientists concerning cryptography and to fulfill his interest in thedissemination of information about cryptography, Appellant Karn, asoftware engineer

Vitalism and Psychology

https://arcaneknowledge.org/science/vitapsych3.htm

If the information of computers is just a set of physical states, then this cannot suffice as an explanation of human knowledge, which is more than mere physical representations.

WAI-ARIA 1.0 User Agent Implementation Guide

https://www.w3.org/TR/2014/REC-wai-aria-implementation-20140320/

defined in a way that computers can process a representation of an object , such as elements and attributes , and reliably represent the object in a way that various humans will a

A Scheme Primer

https://files.spritely.institute/papers/scheme-primer.html

and change from our computers, as illustrated in this nested set of quotes: As Simon Peyton Jones, a well-known functional programmer, likes to say, "All you can do without side e

The WWW VL: Educational Technology - Educational VR (MUD) sub-page (05-Jan-2000)

https://tecfa.unige.ch/edu-comp/WWW-VL/eduVR-page.html

on MOO ("Mud, Object-Oriented"). Has pointers to many interessting servers for text(MUD)-based VR, also educational. (slow updates ?) "moo" . A good index page by Chris Hand . See

Loper OS » Seven Laws of Sane Personal Computing

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

with such things on our computers is a broken one: see the Seventh Law. Obfuscated code destroys my ability to usefully interrogate the machine about its activity at all times, an

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

Old, but Interesting Programs

https://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.

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