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jim_lawless

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Home page / blog : https://jimlawless.net

The Stray Pointers Podcast : https://straypointers.com

Github: https://github.com/jimlawless

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COBOL Is the Asbestos of Programming Languages

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1 points·by jim_lawless·il y a 4 mois·2 comments

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jim_lawless
·il y a 7 jours·discuss
I remember seeing the TRS-80's in The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou but I didn't know that they were Model IV's.

According to this list, there was a TRS-80 Model III in the Star Wars TV series Andor:

Andor - Season 1, Episode 1, "Kassa" (2022)
jim_lawless
·il y a 2 mois·discuss
It looks like MiniScript uses the keyword "end" followed by another keyword to denote the end of a specific type of block.

From the Quick Reference guide here:

https://miniscript.org/files/MiniScript-QuickRef.pdf

"Indentation doesn't matter (except for readability)."
jim_lawless
·il y a 2 mois·discuss
You might want to check out the book "FoxTales : Behind the Scenes at Fox Software"

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B005KUH4GI
jim_lawless
·il y a 3 mois·discuss
Related HN post "Ageless Linux- Software for humans of indeterminate age" :

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47381791
jim_lawless
·il y a 6 mois·discuss
My main page is

https://jimlawless.net/

It mainly serves as a page to hold contact info and some links to various specific parts of my sites ( blogs, podcast, ...etc. )
jim_lawless
·il y a 7 mois·discuss
I saw a post about the SKOAR language here on HN in late 2015:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10180423

In the comments, I saw reference to MML ( Music Macro Language ... not exactly what I think the MML is on the list. ) Here's the one referenced in the HN post.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Music_Macro_Language

At the time, I built a small interpreter that included MML as an embedded language, but I don't think I have the (Windows) binaries handy.
jim_lawless
·il y a 9 mois·discuss
I interviewed Rob Sherman the gent behind Southernamis and other Atari BBS's on my podcast a few months ago. He's running emulated Atari 8-bit systems in AWS for these BBS's. Rob also has written some articles on telnet-access retro BBS's in the newly revived Compute's Gazette magazine.

Visiting BBS's that run on actual or emulated hardware can be a nice trip down memory lane for those who were part of the 8-bit BBS community in times past.
jim_lawless
·il y a 9 mois·discuss
I asked ChatGPT to write a Windows GUI C program that looks for a running instance of the onedrive EXE at regular intervals and terminates it while keeping a running log of the attempts in a scrolling window. It took a few iterations to get what I wanted and it was simple to compile with GCC.

You can use a Powershell to see if onedrive.exe is running and kill it with the -force option to do something similar ( ps * onedrive * | kill -force ) with no spaces between the asterisks and the word onedrive, but that turned out to be a little heavier to have running continuously than I wanted.

If you use a process like this, you absolutely need to run it at intervals because the onedrive exe seems to execute at regular intervals.
jim_lawless
·il y a 3 ans·discuss
I wrote a set of Python/PIL scripts to arrange image collages for print calendars, web backgrounds, ...etc. In one particular script I use to build backgrounds, the images remain the same height but they can be different widths. The images built are seamless. Here's an example of some comic book covers in a collage using one of these scripts:

https://jiml.us/bp/
jim_lawless
·il y a 14 ans·discuss
1980: BASIC, 1983: Z-80, 6502 asm, 1984: COBOL, mainframe "Assembler" language, Pascal, Forth, 1985: Fortran, 1987 : C ... then, C++ and a variety of other languages followed.

My computer progression: TRS-80 pocket computer, TRS-80 model I, Commodore 64, Commodore 128, Commodore +4, Amiga, Vic-20, and then the long list of Intel 80x86 machines and phone/tablet gadgets.