<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small"><p class="MsoNormal">George, I liked your comments! Looking forward to seeing your
solution using the almost forgotten language FORTH. In the mid eighties, I had
designed and built a desktop computer using the chip set, R65F11 with RF65FR1
ROM manufactured by Rockwell International.
The RF65FR1 ROM contained the interpreter language dubbed RSC-FORTH. In addition
to the R65F11 and RF65FR1 ROM, a basic working basic system could be built just
using a 2016 2K8 RAM and a handful of TTL ICs. The R65F11 controller
required no built-in monitor because the I/O was via a RS232 dumb terminal. The
marketing of the desktop went nowhere even though the final design was on a PCB
board and included
two <span style="color:black;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial">3 ½ inch one sided floppy disks</span>
that had just been introduced. The interest in FORTH dwindled part because memory
became cheap. I still have ½ dozen R65F11, one ROM and three
programming manuals and over the years I’ve been tempted to put one together but
never found the time. <span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal">Happy FORTHing.</p></div></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Fri, Oct 9, 2020 at 6:18 PM Michelle Wiboltt <<a href="mailto:michellewiboltt@outlook.com">michellewiboltt@outlook.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">
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<p class="MsoNormal">Fun<span style="font-family:"Apple Color Emoji"">😊</span><u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">K, so rather than indent why not start with curvy…like an “s”? or sum such thing<span style="font-family:"Apple Color Emoji"">😊</span> or, how ‘bout the code (letters/words) be curvy, like a wave? Or how ‘bout feelings (warm fuzzy good
ones) starting the code like…yummy, code/code/code? Or, say an image/emoji of yummy?<u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">And<u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Keeping in mind, None of it can be random. Leaving our everything to chance? I don’t like those odds because if you fail to plan… . See? Yeah. K.<u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">So, CODERS, here’s my ask, Can YOU find Your sexy warm fuzzy – love language - in Your head AND THEN, find a way to translate those yummy good feelings into code, in a manner that matches YOUR view/feel/intent/fuzzy good really yummy stuff
that u code about.<u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Simply, when you look at code…I’m assuming that You do see/feel/yum? because well, I don’t know…You tell me, right code, see? Purpose, maybe? Curious and interesting, pretty for sure? Scary, we don’t know, have we even tried?<u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Possible? I don’t even know what an internet is so, again, you tell me?<u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:12pt;color:black">From: </span></b><span style="font-size:12pt;color:black">Projects <<a href="mailto:projects-bounces@vicpimakers.ca" target="_blank">projects-bounces@vicpimakers.ca</a>> on behalf of George Bowden <<a href="mailto:gtbowdeng@gmail.com" target="_blank">gtbowdeng@gmail.com</a>><br>
<b>Reply-To: </b>Talk about Raspberry Pi / embeded projects <<a href="mailto:projects@vicpimakers.ca" target="_blank">projects@vicpimakers.ca</a>><br>
<b>Date: </b>Friday, October 9, 2020 at 5:16 PM<br>
<b>To: </b>Talk about Raspberry Pi / embeded projects <<a href="mailto:projects@vicpimakers.ca" target="_blank">projects@vicpimakers.ca</a>><br>
<b>Subject: </b>Re: [VicPiMakers Projects] Jim's Challenge (re-posted from Slack)<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Sexy code... I'm for that, for sure. We try to make our code curvy by indenting, but logic gets in the way of romance for some of us.<u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"> I did once work with a programmer who indented randomly, just to make it look like the rest of our code. <u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"> He could have done curves, for sure.<u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Your request that code be in prose is valid. Pseudo <span style="color:rgb(0,112,192)">
(REAL</span>) code is that. Inclusion of massive commenting (<span style="color:rgb(0,112,192)">SEGUES</span>), <u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">and even very wordy languages like Cobol were popular once. We are still searching for the holy grail of self documenting coding<u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">languages, because keeping comments and code in sync is nor for the lazy like me.<u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">But wait till you see my solutions in FORTH. They are stacked (<span style="color:rgb(0,112,192)">like a crossword, see?)!!</span><u></u><u></u></p>
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