[VicPiMakers Projects] Jim's Challenge (re-posted from Slack)

[James Briante]

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 3 ½ inch one sided floppy disks 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.

Happy FORTHing.

On Fri, Oct 9, 2020 at 6:18 PM Michelle Wiboltt <michellewiboltt at outlook.com>
wrote:

> Fun😊
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> K, so rather than indent why not start with curvy…like an “s”? or sum such
> thing😊 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?
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> 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.
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> 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.
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> 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?
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> Possible? I don’t even know what an internet is so, again, you tell me?
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> *From: *Projects <projects-bounces at vicpimakers.ca> on behalf of George
> Bowden <gtbowdeng at gmail.com>
> *Reply-To: *Talk about Raspberry Pi / embeded projects <
> projects at vicpimakers.ca>
> *Date: *Friday, October 9, 2020 at 5:16 PM
> *To: *Talk about Raspberry Pi / embeded projects <projects at vicpimakers.ca>
> *Subject: *Re: [VicPiMakers Projects] Jim's Challenge (re-posted from
> Slack)
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> 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.
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>  I did once work with a programmer who indented randomly,  just to make it
> look like the rest of our code.
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>  He could have done curves, for sure.
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> Your request that code be in prose is valid. Pseudo (REAL) code is that.
> Inclusion of massive commenting (SEGUES),
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> and even very wordy languages like Cobol were popular once.  We are still
> searching for the holy grail of self documenting coding
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> languages, because keeping comments and code in sync is nor for the lazy
> like me.
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> But wait till you see my solutions in FORTH.  They are stacked (like a
> crossword, see?)!!
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> gtbowdeng at gmail.com
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