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Marty Heyman Sep 7, 2023

@riotnrrd ... We could have a discussion about your opinion of COBOL. Your second point is on target. Developers responsibly write and test COBOL to Java translators and carefully make sure the results are correct (#heirloomcomputing among others). AI is a different matter altogether. GnuCOBOL simply compiles it to C and uses gcc to produce native programs. Our COBOL for GCC (gcobol) will be a GCC - native compiler. Recompilation is often all that is needed.

#cobol #gcobol #gnucobol

clacke: exhausted pixie dream boy 🇸🇪🇭🇰💙💛May 1, 2023

> If I'd be building software to use for the next 100 years I'd be using something like CL or SML that has "failed" to change this side of the century.

Re: libranet.de/display/0b6b25a8-3… (by myself)

Someone wrote a blog post on this, the heirloom program or the 100-year program or something and drew the SML conclusion, but I can't find it now.

It was written over a year ago. It wasn't the CollapseOS guy, nor was it anyone at Merveilles Town.

#PostCollapseComputing #HeirloomComputing #SmallComputing #PermaComputing

Csepp 🌢

No offense, but some of the opinions I see about the status of Lisp really make its users seem like cultists. Yeah, sexps are a nice syntax that enables a lo...

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iooioio Nov 17, 2021

@SuricrasiaOnline I love this idea. I think I read the term #heirloomcomputing somewhere. And the #uxn community seems to have lots of folks that think like this.

Deadly Headshot Jun 27, 2021

Is there a peer-to-peer asynchronous platform like #SSB (#scuttlebutt) but that runs natively instead of using Node.JS and thus is more likely to run on a (really) low-power system? Been thinking about #heirloomcomputing #heirloomcomputers and my 2000ish Linux laptop (128MB RAM, runs an older variant of #Tinycore).