#c

harryhaller@diasp.eu

this is is better than twitter a.s.o.

alive and well

I'm using tin
DON'T USE goggle groups - it's just a web interface
usenet has nothing to do with google


From: Paul Edwards mutazilah@gmail.com
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: pure C90 newsreader
Date: Mon, 20 Nov 2023 14:14:28 -0000 (UTC)

The google groups ban finally caused me to prioritize my newsreader software.

Here is the pure C90 code used to post this message:

https://sourceforge.net/p/pdos/gitcode/ci/master/tree/src/pdpnntp.c

(and I can also read using that, but it's another level of pain).

So I'm still using google groups to read.

Replies are going to be difficult I guess.

I run this program under PDOS/386. With qemu
giving me a traditional serial port, and PDOS/386
giving the application a bog-standard C90 stream
to that serial port.

BFN. Paul.

#usenet #newsreader #newsgroups #c #c90 #tin #pdos

royae@diaspora-fr.org

Joe Marshall
@2023-09-27 16:31

Greenspun's tenth rule of programming states

Any sufficiently complicated C or Fortran program contains an ad hoc, informally-specified, bug ridden, slow implementation of half of Common Lisp.

Observe that the Python interpreter is written in C.

In fact, most popular computer languages can be thought of as a poorly implemented Common Lisp. There is a reason for this. Church's lambda calculus is a great foundation for reasoning about programming language semantics. Lisp can be seen as a realization of a lambda calculus interpreter. By reasoning about a language's semantics in Lisp, we're essentially reasoning about the semantics in a variation of lambda calculus.

http://funcall.blogspot.com/

#programming #Computer-language #Lisp #C

mkwadee@diasp.eu

The other day, a non-technical colleague said to me, "You're a #Python expert, aren't you?" I felt I had to correct him since I have only dabbled with the #language and I said that I'm more accustomed to scientific programming in #C or #Fortran. He looked a bit bemused, in hindsight, I'm not surprised as I've never talked to him about computing before. He then said "No, I meant #MontyPython." Well, modesty aside, I said that I'm probably the most expert person there and so our conversation continued on a more humorous subject.