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anadem commented on Chuck Moore: Colorforth has stopped working [video] youtube.com/watch?v=MvkGB... · Posted by u/netten

atherton94027 · a month ago

Very impressive to see Chuck Moore still going at it at the age of 87. I hope at that age I'm able to handle the minutiae of programming!

anadem · a month ago

Totally! At 87 that's gutsy! My very first paid programming work was in Forth on a 6502 platform in the '60s, building a networked accounting and flow management program for a water company, but I'm now 81 and very glad to be retired.

anadem commented on Canada loses its measles-free status, with US on track to follow bbc.com/news/articles/cy7... · Posted by u/bookofjoe

josefritzishere · a month ago

RFK... sigh

anadem · a month ago

And the guy he works for ... sigh bigly

anadem commented on FAA to cut flights by 10% at 40 major airports due to government shutdown cnbc.com/2025/11/05/faa-c... · Posted by u/mikhael

JKCalhoun · a month ago

Wild times. I guess I'm just at a loss for words—what's going on in this country.

anadem · a month ago

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anadem commented on Show HN: I built a minimal Forth-like stack interpreter library in C · Posted by u/Forgret

tdeck · 3 months ago

If you're interested in learning more about how FORTH works I, I can recommend two very old books.

Starting FORTH https://archive.org/details/LeoBrodieStartingFORTHIntroducti...

Threaded Interpretive Languages https://archive.org/details/R.G.LoeligerThreadedInterpretive...

The latter doesn't even mention FORTH, and describes some very archaic CPU architectures, but I found it fascinating because it builds things from the ground up.

anadem · 3 months ago

Loeliger's 'Threaded Interpretive Languages' jumpstarted my career in the late 1970s: I built a networked water management system based on their code, which was my first big project, earning me £1,500. Note that there's a bug in their code (I no longer remember exactly where) so getting it off the ground was tricky.

anadem commented on UK backing down on Apple encryption backdoor after pressure from US arstechnica.com/tech-poli... · Posted by u/azalemeth

slavik81 · 5 months ago

The author of V for Vendetta, Watchmen, 300, and The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen?

anadem · 5 months ago

Well I (as a widely-read 81 year old bookworm lol) have never heard of him

anadem commented on Dinesh’s Mid-Summer Death Valley Walk (1998) dineshdesai.info/dv/photo... · Posted by u/wonger_

anadem · 6 months ago

Interesting that they didn't find the nights too cold for sleeping out. We camped in Racetrack Playa one spring some years back and the nights were bitterly cold with extreme wind.

anadem commented on Iran asks its people to delete WhatsApp from their devices apnews.com/article/iran-w... · Posted by u/rdrd

candiddevmike · 6 months ago

America really can't afford this right now. We spent _trillions_ on the last middle east operation.

anadem · 6 months ago

I don't think our current administration cares what we can afford

anadem commented on Battle to eradicate invasive pythons in Florida achieves milestone phys.org/news/2025-06-era... · Posted by u/wglb

anadem · 6 months ago

That headline sounds encouraging, but the actual info is anything but.

anadem commented on Implementing a Forth ratfactor.com/forth/imple... · Posted by u/todsacerdoti

john-tells-all · 7 months ago

I adore the `Threaded Interpretive Languages` book! It very clearly describes the internals of a real language, and variations on how to get it all done.

https://archive.org/details/R.G.LoeligerThreadedInterpretive...

anadem · 7 months ago

Yes, it's a lovely book and led me to my first paid project over 40 years ago! Using the book I built a Forth to monitor the local water authority systems, with water-level tracking and customer accounting & billing, implemented on a home-brewed network of North Star PCs. Iirc there's a minor bug in one of the base subroutines as written though now I don't remember what it was. But I still have the book :-)

anadem commented on The mysterious Gobi wall uncovered phys.org/news/2025-05-sec... · Posted by u/bikenaga

johnea · 7 months ago

Thanks for that link!

I didn't find it in my search...

anadem · 7 months ago

In the phys.org article:

> The paper is published in the journal Land.

the word 'published' links to the MDPI paper

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