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Spreadsheets are all you need 2 years ago

There's also this paper by Alan Kay that talks about the power of spreadsheets:

https://worrydream.com/refs/Kay_1984_-_Computer_Software.pdf

The dynamic spreadsheet is a good example of such a tissuelike superobject. It is a simulation kit, and it provides a remarkable degree of direct leverage. Spreadsheets at their best combine the genres established in the 1970's (objects, windows, what-you-see-is-what-you-get editing and goal-seeking retrieval) into a "better old thing" that is likely to be one of the "almost new things" for the mainstream designs of the next few years.

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My history with Forth and stack machines (2010) 3 years ago

Yeah, I've been working on Noticias, which is an implementation of NeWS in Typescript targeting the browser.

Initially, I used HTML5 Canvas to draw, but I'm now in the process of switching over to SVG. Once I have demos that I can show, I'll be making the repo public.

If you're interested in working it, please reach out to me, duncanmak@gmail.com.

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A Forth Apologia (1988) 4 years ago

Kragen, how much of what you said here about Forth also applies to PostScript, do you think?

I have been tinkering with PostScript but not Forth, I grok that PostScript is a lot closer to LISP. A lot of people (without actually learning these languages/systems) say Forth and PS are similar, but I know that's not really the case - their resemblance is fairly superficial.

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PostScript Control Structures (2003) 4 years ago

With PostScript being one of the few successful "mobile code" systems out there, I wonder if PSON will do better than JSON by allowing { procedures }.

With the explicit dictionary stack, couldn't that be used to sandbox the scope and reach of these procedures?

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Gallery of programming UIs 8 years ago

Hey Mikel, are the Sk8 sources/binaries anywhere? Is it possible to run Sk8 nowadays if one has access to hardware running classic MacOS?

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