Freedom and Portability
The economic advantages of portability are very great. In many segments of the computer industry, the dominant cost is development and maintenance of software. Dennis Ritchie and Stephen Johnson 1978 … many insist that C is the programming language and that it will last forever. Byte Magazine 1983 The August 1983 issue of Byte Magazine devoted its cover, and a large part of its editorial content,
A History of Source Control Systems: SCCS and RCS (Part 1)
April 5, 2024 · 15 min · 3194 words · David Soria Parra Updates#April 7th, 2024#I received an email from Marc Rochkind. He recounts some details of the creation of SCCS. I attached the email at the end of the article and made corrections inside the article. Most importantly, check out Marc’s original paper. Thank you all for the kind comments and interesting discussion Hacker News and Lobste.rs. H
Only 90s Web Developers Remember This
Please sign my guestbook. Have you ever shoved a <blink> into a <marquee> tag? Pixar gets all the accolades today, but in the 90s this was a serious feat of computer animation. By combining these two tags, you were a trailblazer. A person capable of great innovation. A human being that all other human beings could aspire to. You were a web developer in the 1990s. With that status, you knew you wer
The SuperH-3, part 1: Introduction - The Old New Thing
Windows CE supported the Hitachi SuperH-3 and SuperH-4 processors. These were commonly abbreviated SH-3 and SH-4, or just SH3 and SH4, and the architecture series was known as SHx. I’ll cover the SH-3 processor in this series, with some nods to the SH-4 as they arise. But the only binaries I have available for reverse-engineering are SH-3 binaries, so that’s where my focus will be. The SH-3 is the
「アイデアだけでは意味がない、実装されて初めて意味がある」 世界最古のプログラミング言語から学ぶ教訓
プログラミング言語「Ruby」の国内最大のビジネスカンファレンス「RubyWorld Conference」。Rubyの先進的な利用事例や最新の技術動向、開発者教育の状況などの情報を発信することで、「Rubyのエコシステム(生態系)」を知ることができる場として開催します。ここで登壇したのは、Rubyアソシエーション 理事長のまつもとゆきひろ氏。プログラミング言語の過去、歴史から学ぶ教訓について発表しました。全4回。1回目は、「アイデアだけでは十分ではない」について。 Ruby開発のきっかけ まつもとゆきひろ氏：じゃあ、始めます。Rubyを作り始めた記録が残っているんですが、その当時勤めていた会社の先輩にあたる人が、本を書くという話になったんですね。 その時に、彼は『プログラミング言語を作りながら学ぶオブジェクト指向』という本を書くと言ってきたんですね。編集の人と話をしていく中で「どういう企
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A History of C Compilers – Part 1: Performance, Portability and Freedom | Hacker News
A History of Source Control Systems: SCCS and RCS | Lobsters
Only 90s Web Developers Remember This (2014) | Hacker News
The SuperH-3, part 1: Introduction (2019) | Hacker News
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