#StarWars #DarkSide

It was great pleasure that I discovered that one of my favourite programming languages families, Forth, has an implementation on the subleq architecture.

https://howerj.github.io/

It was to my great disappointment and displeasure that I discovered that I couldn't find my favourite programming language family, Lisp, implemented on the subleq architecture.

Neither in subleq assembly or, preferably, a self-hosting Lisp implementation. All I could find was a recommendation by Richard James Howe himself to use a subleq C compiler to compile a Lisp implemented in C to get a Lisp implementation on subleq.

This will not do!
This will not stand!

(If I am wrong, and there is a Lisp implementation, as I desire above, that I missed in my web searches, please let me know.)

#forth #lisp #subleq #esoteric #coding #esolangs #esolang #esocomputing

@snowyavis

r/overheard at a park bench, Grandpa vs. modern dating.

https://www.reddit.com/r/overheard/s/npAvkIiPVd

I'm imagining that the 3d coding lang would be like a *funge/dataflow language on a hexagonal (are the bestigons) prism grid. That would give each node potentially 8 inputs/outputs.

I intend it to compile to the 32-bit VM I've been designing lately.

#esolangs #esocomputing #coding

It would also be a good idea to have an audio as well as a visual display so I don't have to be concentrated too much on my screen while I'm walking and coding.

I was thinking that the audio interface would be like a text adventure format. That way I can create a simpler display for it first, before having to work out how to do 3D graphics.

Like, I will give the option to type in the commands that you can also verbally say.

#esolangs #esocomputing #coding

So I'm listening to the SGU, and they are saying how VR can be good for exercise, which made me think that maybe I ought to get VR to make exercising inside during the winter easier. (I find it very hard to motivate myself to use my exercise bike, even though I have it for that purpose.) Then I thought about the expense of VR and how I'd probably want to play games that I create on it, and so that made me think of the difficulties of that. I was also concerned that I could only really be moving my arms around, rather than my legs, which I felt was a problem. Eventually it occured to me that what I could do is write a game for Android, and have my walking speed be used to navigate around a virtual world. That way, unlike VR, I could do it outside as well as inside. I was then pondering about the sort of games to write for it, and I hit upon the idea of having a 3d programming language on the Android that uses my walking to navigate around the 3d space to code in the 3d language to program my game in.

#esolangs #esocomputing #coding

A father talking about his daughter: "she started to take fencing classes. I don't know if I should be proud or scared that she could defeat me in a sword fight."

It just occurred to me that weeding is just like debugging. The point of gardening isn't the weeding, it's the plants you want to grow. Just like the point of coding isn't debugging, it's writing the code you want to run. Yet both weeding and debugging take up a lot of the time of gardening and programming.

#coding #programming #debugging #gardening #weeding

@neauoire Also, I looked for, but couldn't find the source code for the boot.rom in my git clone. Is the source for it available?

@neauoire I don't know why - I've had my Raspberry Pi 400 since the new year - but it only occurred to me today that I could try out uxn!

Is it worth adding to the website binary download text the specification that the binaries are for x86 processors, or do too few people who try out uxn try it out on other cpus?

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@prahou Can I ask what a machine ascetic is?

@futurebird I just notice you Escher banner pic. Love it!

@neauoire I'm wondering how you feel about: rather than just have one VM and it (indirectly) accessing a MB or so of memory, having multiple VMs that only access 64KB each communicate to each other through message passing (and perhaps some of them have actual seperate hardware processors under them)?