Genscher mistakenly signed CSU membership application
Really now. Simply slipping Genschman a CSU party motion, that's really mean.
At tagesschau.de - Die Nachrichten der ARD you can find the original article.
Archive 22. October 2004
Java predecessor celebrates birthday: 30 years of p-System
Oh yes, the UCSD-p system. A beautifully baroque system with oddly obscure system libraries and its statically designed file system, which drove many a user to madness. The editor was nice. And made me receptive to vi. In the first years of my computer science classes, I still had fun with UCSD Pascal - unfortunately, it was then switched to CP/M and first Pascal M and then Turbo Pascal.
At heise online news there is the original article.
Ken Iverson is dead
Probably none of the kids today know him anymore - the inventor of APL and J. Two of the strangest and most interesting programming languages. His work certainly influenced many programmers and language designers, and in my opinion, he deserves to be seen on the same level as McCarthy (Lisp inventor), Kristen Nygaard (Simula and thus OO inventor) and Alan Kay (Smalltalk father). After Kristen Nygaard, he was the second great figure in language design to pass away.
Retrocomputing - Symbolics Lisp Machine Emulation
Someone is already working on the Symbolics emulation. And their approach is extra cool: they OCRed the Lisp sources of the Symbolics microcode from the patent document, converted them, and now they're building an emulator and working their way through the microcode instructions that are missing from the patent. Some people—fortunately—simply have too much free time.
XShelf 1.1.2 for MacOS X - Tool to simulate the old NextStep Shelf (interrupted drag-n-drop actions)