“Lisp, Lisp, Lisp Machine, Lisp Machine is Fun!”

Published at: 09:08 pm - Monday August 24 2009
Posted in: Distractions, LispMachine, NonLoper, ShouldersGiants, SoftwareArchaeology, Symbolics by Stanislav 10 Comments

Complexity is the problem. Count the parts!

Published at: 09:08 am - Monday August 17 2009

Charles Moore, the venerable inventor of FORTH, has this to say regarding the likely-dim future of technology: Complexity is the problem. Moving it from hardware to software, or vice versa, doesn’t help. Simplicity is the only answer. There was a product many years ago called the Canon Cat. It was a simple, dedicated word processor; done […]

Posted in: SoftwareArchaeology, SoftwareSucks by Stanislav 3 Comments

Shards of Lost Technology, and the Need for High-Level Architectures.

Published at: 04:08 pm - Monday August 03 2009

The modern high-level-language programmer thinks (if he is of the thinking kind) of low-level system architecture as a stubborn enemy, or, at best, a harsh and indifferent force of nature. Anyone who suggests that everyday desktop apps ought to be written directly in a CPU’s native instruction set is viewed as much the same kind […]

Posted in: Hardware, Hot Air, LispMachine, Memory, MIT, Papers, ShouldersGiants, SoftwareArchaeology, SoftwareSucks by Stanislav 25 Comments