Nano-Blog : April 20, 2025
Nano-Blog for the week of April 20, 2025.
§ April 20, 2025
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Henry Laxen's Comments about FORTH
In the 1980s, one of the more popular FORTH implementations was Laxen & Perry L&P-83 by Henry Laxen and Mike Perry. If you were doing FORTH on 8 or 16 bit microcomputers, you (at least) looked at L&P FORTH, even if you weren't using it. In 2002, Henry Laxen made a few comments about the joys of FORTH on Slashdot. We couldn't find an archived version on the Internet Archive or via Bing, Google or DuckDuckGo search. But someone put up just his comments on the AtariWiki at Henry Laxen on Slashdot 2002. It's short and Worth a read.
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Why MIT 6.001 is No Longer Taught with Scheme
Several software hackers of a particular age cut their teeth on SICP : Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs. It was the name of the book and the introductory courseware where students were presented with a high-level explanation of programming from Hal Abelson and Jerry Sussman. Then, all of the sudden, MIT stopped teaching SICP using Scheme and started teaching it's intro classes with Python. This video, from an NYC Lisp Meetup in 2016, Sussman explains why that happened...