bear8642·قبل 19 يومًا·discuss> In the middle 70s it was COBOL, when COBOL'74 came out it became king of in-house programming for IBMI thought IBM were still focused on APL in the 70s…
bear8642·قبل 21 يومًا·discuss> "[Phoenix] repackages off-the-shelf semiconductors into devices that are virtually identical to the phased-out chips."I'm slightly surprised that _virtually_ identical chips are allowed. I expected truly identical chips to be required…
bear8642·قبل شهرين·discuss> AI is not delivering 10x shareholder value, anywhere.A bit facetious, but I'd expect Nvidia and the like providing the "AI equipment" to have a 10× share value at least…
bear8642·قبل شهرين·discussHow so?I'm struggling to see how Roger's manipulation of the expressions without executing each line validates Dijkstra's point...
bear8642·قبل 3 أشهر·discussFor a smaller example, try the J Incunabulum[0] various explanations are available [1][2]It's been discussed here before too.[0] https://code.jsoftware.com/wiki/Essays/Incunabulum [1] https://blog.wilsonb.com/posts/2025-06-06-readable-code-is-u... [2] https://tony-zorman.com/posts/j-incunabulum.html
bear8642·قبل 3 أشهر·discuss> I'd argue a 50% hit to performance [...] is ... quite the regressionIndeed! Especially if said regression happens to impact anything trade/market related...
bear8642·قبل 3 أشهر·discuss> daily drivers (ppc64le, Apple silicon)How come you're running ppc64le as a daily driver?
bear8642·قبل 3 أشهر·discuss> the only relevant big-endian architecture is s390xThe adjacent POWER architecture is also still relevant - but as you say, they too can afford a support contract.
bear8642·قبل 4 أشهر·discussLikely because whilst it didn't work out commercially, the ideas smalltalk, prolog and other more esoteric languages (forth, apl) focus on are themselves very interesting.
bear8642·قبل 5 أشهر·discuss> Humans trust. Their systems should too.And indeed as Thompson showed, you've got to trust at some point...https://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/teaching/2223/R209/Reflections-Trus...
bear8642·قبل 6 أشهر·discuss> Good science fiction where the aliens are very alien are hard to come byI feel this is one of the reasons I liked Fire upon the Deep with the group mind based Tines
bear8642·قبل 8 أشهر·discussThey sort of did with the Cell https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cell_(processor)
bear8642·قبل 9 أشهر·discusshuh, can you not use the Xkb APL symbols file?I thought that compose definitions as well as the shifted layout…
bear8642·قبل 9 أشهر·discussRight, thank you!I recognised the " as rank but got confused by the _ reading https://code.jsoftware.com/wiki/Vocabulary/under, it seemed to be 'rank negative' and didn't see what that did.> second nature once you internalize J, but so so foreign until you do.Indeed!
I thought IBM were still focused on APL in the 70s…