beagle3on Hacker News • Recommends
On “Red Programming Language 0.6.3”
Not very easy to come by, but if you haven't seen it yet, here's a presentation by geocar from 2014: link to this video
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Geo Carncross: How to program computers (kos)
Justin Cormack
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- Recommended by 3 people: 2 on Hacker News and 1 on Lobsters.
- A classic. People kept recommending it from 2014 to 2019.
- Presented by Geo Carncross
- An opinion. It argues one side of a question engineers disagree on.
Advanced. Deep dive for people who know the field.
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Systems programmingProgramming languagesOperating systemsLanguage design and type systems
Geo Carncross demonstrates kOS, a minimalist operating system and programming environment built around the K programming language.
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3 people recommend thisWhat people say. Recommended as a mind-bending demonstration of extreme minimalism in operating system and language design.
undecidaboton Hacker News • Recommends
On “Impending kOS (2014)”
For those who want to see it in action, there's actually a talk about kOS on YouTube: link to this video . The talk is by the fourth member, Geo, who also frequents HN (geocar).
srpeckon Hacker News • Mentions
On “Sbase – Suckless unix tools”
Same on kOS. In case you had not seen them, early kOS screenshots: link Featured live in geocar's presentation: link to this video Also: - "Arthur wrote an SQL in 20 lines of K, and a dynamic window manager in around 60 of C...kOS's kernel is under 60 lines of C as well (including annotations; paging, filesystem, syscalls, etc)." ( link ) - "k includes language, files, procs, ipc, webserver, dbms, ..z includes graphics...edit.k is 1KB code + k/ztk(9KB)." ( link ) - "kOS doesn't use the Linux kernel code. It supports a few of the same syscalls: clone, execve(!), epoll_create, epoll_ctl, epoll_wait, dup2, stat, rename, unlink, getcwd, chdir, fstat, getdents, open, close, read, write, ftruncate, mma…
exikyuton Hacker News • Mentions
On “Tiny Core Linux”
What counts as contribution? link to this video seriously, seriously did my head in. I was certainly fascinated by this, but I fear that I'd contribute one character, accidentally put it in the wrong place, break the build for two days because nobody can figure out what broke, and then feel really bad for weeks afterwards. (Okay, okay, diffing... but still. I'd break my own build, at least.) I _am_ genuinely interested, and I'd LOVE to play with this, but I'm really, really conservative, and would far prefer to be a fly on the wall for a bit for a while first.
exikyuton Hacker News • Mentions
On “Looking Glass, a revolutionary window manager revealed in 2006”
…led me to list these. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ - SymbOS ( link ): preemptive multitasking, windowed GUI, storage on devices up to 128GB, runs on home computers using the Z80 (starting at 4MHz) with up to (_ up to _) 1MB of RAM. (I found this rambling but very interesting demo of what it can do with one of the more capable machines it supports: link ) - kOS ( link to this video ): limited-access…
kickon Hacker News • Mentions
On “Stages of denial in encountering K”
…retch of the imagination. For example, here's 2 3 4 some videos disproving your statement, the first two being APL, the last being k itself. For extra bonus points, see Aaron Hsu's talks 5; pick any of them, they're all pretty good, and most have a segment in them explaining how that viewpoint is wrong. 1 link 2 link 3 link 4 link to this video 5 link…
kickon Hacker News • Mentions
On “Stages of denial in encountering K”
And specifically in that example, using an external database when defending the speed of the language kdb isn't written in an external language. Has he? Couldn't find anything (I'd like to see it, honestly, seems a fun experiment). Not entirely him, of course. There are a few remaining files on kparc.com: kparc.com/z/ kparc.com/$/ so on. Not free software, and they seem reluctant to show it off. 'geocar has done a live demo of a primitive version, though: link to this video (2014) The archive is more interesting: link