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Felix Winkelmann
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Felix Winkelmann's personal blog at call-with-current-continuation.org covers programming and systems. Since 2007, 42 different Hacker News readers have linked it 61 times, most often “Fleng 22 (concurrent logic programming)”. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.
Most-linked posts?
- Fleng 22 (concurrent logic programming)8 people · 8 mentions · first linked 2021-04-27
- Thoughts on Forth Programming5 people · 7 mentions · first linked 2019-07-30
- How Software Companies Die (1995)3 people · 5 mentions · first linked 2017-01-07
- /fp/3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2012-07-20
- UF – A Traditional Forth for Varvara3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2022-06-19
- Bones: A simple Scheme compiler for x86_64 systems3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2014-07-05
- Strand Programming Language3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2021-04-26
- /2 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2008-04-05
- I hate the X11 ICCCM selection system2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2019-10-16
- /2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2007-09-24
What Hacker News says?
Chicken's author also created Bones, a Scheme that outputs x86-64 assembly language. http://www.call-with-current-continuation.org/bones/ README: http://www.call-with-current-continuation.org/bones/bones.ht...
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on “Show HN: Bel”Submitted Thoughts on Forth Programming as a story · 151 points
HN discussionSee also here for an actively maintained and relatively portable implementation of Flat GHC, Strand and PCN for UNIX systems: http://www.call-with-current-continuation.org/fleng/fleng.ht...
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on “Ask HN: What's Prolog like in 2024?”Submitted Fleng 22 (concurrent logic programming) as a story · 126 points
HN discussionStrand is one of the languages that particularly blew my mind, I think it was Armstrong that said that Strand was "too parallel" Strand is a logic programming language for parallel computing, derived from Parlog[2] which itself is a dialect of Prolog[3]. While the language superficially resembles Prolog, depth-first search and backtracking are not provided. Instead execution of a goal spawns a number of processes th…
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on “Programming languages that blew my mind (2023)”Submitted Strand Programming Language as a story · 117 points
HN discussionCompanies can come back after the HBS MBAs/bizdevs take over, they must return to product/engineering/creative focused though and it is tough, usually it takes a near failure for the problem to be recognized. Apple survived when Jobs came back and focused on products/engineering/creativity. Microsoft survived post-Ballmer after returning to product/engineering led decision making and power structures. Amazon is top…
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on “The Coming Boeing Bailout?”Submitted Bones: A simple Scheme compiler for x86_64 systems as a story · 105 points
HN discussionFLENG[1] - Wow, "low level concurrent logic programming language descended from Prolog" - sounds like an easy swap out for Erlang since they have the same heritage. ;) [1] http://www.call-with-current-continuation.org/fleng/fleng.ht...
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on “Show HN: Visual flow-based programming for Erlang, inspired by Node-RED”Submitted The joy of concurrent logic programming as a story · 99 points
HN discussionAs far as FL/FP/FPr go, http://www.call-with-current-continuation.org/fp/ is the most mature and complete implementation I'm aware of. There's #proglangdesign on freenode where a bunch of us have been on an array language/function-level streak lately. Some people there might be aware of more.
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on “Advanced programming languages (2009)”Submitted The Brutalist Programming Manifesto as a story · 68 points
HN discussionFurry Paws is an "optimizing whole-program compiler and runtime-system for a dialect of John Backus' FP language": http://www.call-with-current-continuation.org/fp/
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on “Can Programming Be Liberated From The Von Neumann Style? (1977) [pdf]”Submitted FLENG, a concurrent logic programming language as a story · 68 points
HN discussionThere's also Bones, an R5RS Scheme that compiles to x86_64 assembly (from the Chicken Scheme creator). http://www.call-with-current-continuation.org/bones/ https://bitbucket.org/bunny351/bones
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on “Compiling a Lisp to x86-64: primitive functions”Submitted MicroFLENG – concurrent logic programming for CP/M, C64 and the “uxn” VM as a story · 47 points
HN discussionI think this is very indicative of Winkelmann's philosophies about software in general. On his site he writes a little bit about why he thinks Forth is so important, and I think it makes for a good explanation of why he probably implemented Strand like this: http://www.call-with-current-continuation.org/articles/forth...
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on “Strand Programming Language”Submitted I hate the X11 ICCCM selection system as a story · 36 points
HN discussionFrom the same author, and in the same family of languages, is FLENG: http://www.call-with-current-continuation.org/fleng/fleng.ht... It lacks Strand's distributed features but includes prolog's unification.
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on “Strand Programming Language”Submitted MA – a single-window clone of Plan9's Acme editor in Tcl/TK as a story · 5 points
HN discussionA sample from their user manual[0]: % print even numbers between 1 and 10 main :- count(1). count(11). count(N) :- N =< 10 | even(N), N2 is N + 1, count(N2). even(N) :- M is N \\ 2, even(M, N). even(0, N) :- writeln(N). even(_, _) :- otherwise | true. [0] http://www.call-with-current-continuation.org/strand/MANUAL
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on “Strand Programming Language”Submitted ?- Prolog as a story · 4 points
HN discussionNitpick: It's 'Lua', not 'LUA'. (It's Portuguese for "moon", and its predecessor was called 'Sol'.) While I too prefer C+Lua, Schemes that compiler to C are another option. Chicken Scheme ( http://www.call-with-current-continuation.org/ ) is quite good. Gambit ( http://www.iro.umontreal.ca/~gambit/ ) is also popular, though I have less experience with it.
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on “Amplifying C”Submitted Stacktor: stack based DSL, inspired by Factor as a story · 4 points
HN discussionThe Strand programming book states that an early version of the Erlang runtime was implemented in Strand (see "13.1: History" http://www.call-with-current-continuation.org/files/strand-b... ), which is an interesting tidbit that I haven't seen come up when the history of Erlang is discussed, like in the featured article.
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on “The Beam”Submitted UF – A Traditional Forth for Varvara as a story · 3 points
HN discussion> This implementation additionally can distribute pools of parallel processes over native OS level threads, thus taking advantage of multicore architectures. Locking overhead should be small, as data is normally not shared among processes executing on different threads. From: http://www.call-with-current-continuation.org/fleng/fleng.ht... It seems the author has taken this into account, it's not a 1:1 mapping of pro…
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on “The joy of concurrent logic programming”Submitted Thoughts on Forth Programming as a story · 3 points
HN discussionThere is a nice Tcl/Tk port of Acme: http://www.call-with-current-continuation.org/ma/ma.html
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on “A Tour of Acme (2012)”Submitted Thoughts on Forth Programming as a story · 3 points
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