It lives! Kinda. Amiga-Smalltalk now runs on Amiga. Along the way I review The K&R book as a tutorial for C programming, mentioning my previous comparison to the Brad Cox and Bjarne Stroustrup books. I also find out how little I know “C”, it turns out I’ve been using GNU C for the last 20 years.
Thanks to Alan Francis for his part in my downfall.
Amiga-Smalltalk now works on an Amiga! I describe the journey to a working port. Full show notes
We’re back to Amiga-Smalltalk today, as the moment when it runs on a real Amiga inches closer. Listen here.
I think I’ve isolated all extraneous sound except the nearby motorway, which I can’t do much about. I hope the experience is better!
We’re getting closer to running Amiga-Smalltalk actually on an Amiga. Full show notes
The latest episode of SICPers, in which I muse on what programming 1980s microcomputers taught me about reading code, is now live. Here’s the podcast RSS feed.
It is practically impossible to teach good programming to students that have had a prior exposure to BASIC: as potential programmers they are mentally mutilated beyond hope of regeneration. Edsger Dijkstra, “How do we tell truths that might hurt?”
As always, your feedback and suggestions are most welcome.
What did programming on a microcomputer with a 6809 CPU and 32k of RAM teach me about reading code? Full show notes
The only link I promised this week is to the BCHS web application stack. Short for BSD, C, httpd, sqlite, it’s a minimalist approach to making web applications.
As ever, your feedback is welcome, here or wherever you find me.
Graham discusses the experience of taking on a project that has been started by an enthusiastic novice and getting ready to engineer changes.
Full show notes: https://www.sicpers.info/2020/04/sicpers-podcast-episode-two/
I made a podcast! Full show notes here due to the character limit at podbean.
Free books on Smalltalk: the three Addison-Wesley books “Smalltalk-80: The Interactive Programming Environment”, “Smalltalk-80: The Language and its Implementation” and “Smalltalk-80: Bits of History, Words of Advice” are mentioned in this podcast, and the second of those is “the blue book” at the centre of the episode.
AROS Research Operating System is the Amiga-compatible open source operating system. It can boot on (i386 or m68k) hardware, or run hosted in Linux, FreeBSD, macOS, and Windows.
Please let me know what you think! You can find me on twitter at @iwasleeg, and I gave out my email address in the podcast. You could also comment here!
Errata: I said the Amiga 1000 had 128kB of RAM but it had 256kB, sorry!
Graham describes what he’s learned about object-oriented programming and memory management from the beginning of his project to write a Smalltalk-80 implementation.
Full show notes: https://www.sicpers.info/2020/04/sicpers-podcast-episode-one/
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