"I love Garamond!" is that Adobe's pissy Originals or a real goddamn Garamond: #retrocomputing #algol #typography
#Algol
#Marathon51 As tends to happen with these, I ended up losing #ALGOL's plot, just closing my eyes and enjoying the live music. (The player called it something like "one of the craziest films I've done this for...")
Weird fable about an alien giving one guy a perpetual motion machine, so he--
Losing track of Bechdel passes here. The site where I double-check them isn't loading. Kinda suspect #LiloAndStitch is the only other pass since the first.
Next up, we're learning about #ALGOL :
Let's dig out some #computer #science #history again, such as how for loops and if-else came to be.
Funny enough how a good bunch of things came from German speakers. 🙂
It's always nice hearing @kevlin talk about history that is otherwise hard to discover these days.
And here is "THE AMERICAN SIDE OF THE DEVELOPMENT OF #ALGOL":
https://dl.acm.org/doi/pdf/10.1145/960118.808369
[Перевод] Эдсгер Дейкстра «О вреде оператора Go To»
Публикуем новый полный перевод хрестоматийной статьи Эдсгера Дейкстры. Этот текст, опубликованный в 1968 году в журнале Communications of the ACM в формате письма в редакцию, заложил основы структурного программирования, впервые строго аргументировав отказ от оператора go to в пользу использования циклов и условных конструкций.
(more Linux and FOSS news in previous posts of thread)
Pi-hole releases FTL & Web v6.4 and Core v6.3 for network-wide ad and tracker blocking:
https://alternativeto.net/news/2025/11/pi-hole-releases-ftl-and-web-v6-4-and-core-v6-3-for-network-wide-ad-and-tracker-blocking/
Raspberry Pi Imager 2.0 makes it easier to install Raspberry Pi OS on bootable media:
https://alternativeto.net/news/2025/11/raspberry-pi-imager-2-0-makes-it-easier-to-install-raspberry-pi-os-on-bootable-media/
Vulkan 1.4.335 Released With The Very Notable VK_EXT_present_timing:
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Vulkan-1.4.335-Released
GCC 16 Switches To Using C++20 Standard By Default:
https://www.phoronix.com/news/GCC-16-Now-CPP20-Default
Algol 68 Programming Language Front-End Merged Into GCC 16:
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Algol-68-Merged-Into-GCC-16
iodéOS 7 beta launches with Android 16 base, enhanced battery life, and updated apps:
https://alternativeto.net/news/2025/11/iodeos-7-beta-launches-with-android-16-base-enhanced-battery-life-and-updated-apps/
GrapheneOS leaves France over encryption backdoor concerns:
https://proton.me/blog/grapheneos-france
FreeBSD 15.0-RC4 Released Due To Last Minute Issues:
https://www.phoronix.com/news/FreeBSD-15.0-RC4
#WeeklyNews #OpenSource #FOSSNews #OpenSourceNews #FOSS #PiHole #RaspberryPI #RaspberryPIImager #Vulkan #GCC #GCC16 #Algol #Algol68 #iodeOS #GrapheneOS #FreeBSD #SelfHosting #BSD #CustomRom #OS #OperatingSystem #ProgrammingLanguage #Development #Programming #Coding #FosseryTech
Никлаус Вирт и язык Pascal — легенды 80-х
В 1970 году молодой швейцарский учёный и программист Никлаус Вирт (Niklaus Wirth) выпустил первую версию Pascal. Прошло более полувека, автор умер в 89 лет, а вот Паскаль остаётся актуальным и популярным языком программирования.
https://habr.com/ru/companies/ruvds/articles/968706/
#Никлаус_Вирт #Pascal #Turbo_Pascal #Delphi #Niklaus_Wirth #Free_Pascal #Lazarus_IDE #Algol #Euler #ruvds_статьи
El ORIGEN de PASCAL
> It's really stunning that it does not mention the Scheme language
So very, very true.
There are several large pieces of history in this regard that deserve not only to be published, but to be studied well.
Just a properly written history of closures in computer programming would be worth its weight in gold.
Even a short history.
#Algol
#BlockStructure
#CallByName
#Closures
#HistoryOfComputing
#Lisp
#Scheme
I missed by a month or so the 65th birthday of Algol 60 but it's still time to celebrate with this article on the 60th birthday.
Recordando a Friedrich L. Bauer (10/06/1924)! 🇩🇪 Pionero en ALGOL, compiladores y el principio de pila. Su trabajo sentó las bases del software moderno Un genio detrás de escena. #retrocomputingmx #friedrichbauer #algol #Compiladores #historiadelacomputacion #softwareengineering
Burroughs perfected the computer language Algol, on the stack, unbreakable, like their hand-cranked calculator, all in open source.
People submitted patches, via C.U.B.E (Cooperative Users of Burroughs Equipment) group meetings on nine track reel tapes. And yes, I used to patch the Operating System, called MCP (Master Computing Program.
Then, imagine my surprise when this popped up:
https://algol-for-linux.com/
ugh... on April 1st...
I don't understand something: if the null pointer was a billion dollar mistake, and has caused pain and system crashes for decades, then why weren't there any attempts to just not implement it in an object-oriented system?
#programming #oop #nullsafety #nullpointer #null #billiondollarmistake #algol #java #c #question
Does anyone know a specific version of fortran or algol that does not have "for" as a reserved word, so it can be used as a variable or something, I need it for an exam. #programming #fortran #algol
Un día como hoy 1 de abril, en 1922 nace Alan Jay Perlis, en el seno de una familia judía en Pittsburgh, Pensilvania, y es considerado por muchos como el verdadero padre de la ciencias computacionales.
#AlanPerlis #CienciasComputacionales #algol #video #Efemerides #retrocomputingmx
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