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Hacker News Mar 3

DOS Memory Management

https://www.os2museum.com/wp/dos-memory-management/

#HackerNews #DOS #Memory #Management #OS2Museum #TechInsights #ProgrammingHistory #ComputerScience

DOS Memory Management | OS/2 Museum

Turbo Learn PHP Jan 2

Short Array Syntax Evolution: [ ] vs array( )

PHP's array syntax evolution vs JavaScript's array literals - historical perspective! WILD!

#php #javascript #phpvsjs #arraysyntax #phphistory #languageevolution #syntaxcomparison #viralcoding #programminghistory #php5.4 #arrayliterals #mindblown

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3yRJ_kWqWn8

Short Array Syntax Evolution: vs array #arraysyntax

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Hacker News Dec 31

Back to the future: the story of Squeak, a practical Smalltalk written in itself [pdf] (1997)

http://www.vpri.org/pdf/tr1997001_backto.pdf

#HackerNews #BackToTheFuture #Squeak #Smalltalk #ProgrammingHistory #TechDocs #1997

N-gated Hacker News Dec 11

🤯 Ah yes, the riveting saga of Common Lisp packaging: where we untangle the ancient hieroglyphics of #ASDF and #Quicklisp so you can finally figure out how to install a library from the '80s. ⚙️🕰️ Because nothing screams "modern programming" like deciphering terms minted before your parents met. 📜
https://cdegroot.com/programming/commonlisp/2025/11/26/cl-ql-asdf.html #CommonLisp #Packaging #ProgrammingHistory #ModernDevelopment #HackerNews #ngated

Common Lisp, ASDF, and Quicklisp: packaging explained

Common Lisp has good packaging tools, but they're different. Here we explain the what and how.

Hacker News Dec 6

Extra Instructions of the 65XX Series CPU

http://www.ffd2.com/fridge/docs/6502-NMOS.extra.opcodes

#HackerNews #65XXSeries #CPU #ExtraInstructions #RetroComputing #CPUArchitecture #ProgrammingHistory

Did You Know Sep 12, 2025

Did you know? The first computer virus wasn’t created to cause harm—it was actually an experiment! In 1982, a 15-year-old high school student, Rich Skrenta, coded 'Elk Cloner' for Apple II computers. Instead of chaos, it displayed a playful poem every 50th boot. This innocent experiment sparked the birth of modern antivirus software and changed cybersecurity forever. 🌍 #TechHistory #Cybersecurity #VirusFacts #TechInnovation #ProgrammingHistory #DigitalEra (1/1)

TuxAcademy Jul 9, 2025

Today's Poll...

Which were the earliest programming languages used in the field of AI?

#AI #ProgrammingHistory #LISP #Java #ArtificialIntelligence #TechTrivia #TuxAcademy #C #Go

C

3.6%

Java

3.6%

Go

LISP

92.9%

Poll ended at Jul 10, 2025 at 4:46am.

Hacker News Jun 17, 2025

The Humble Programmer (1972)

https://www.cs.utexas.edu/~EWD/transcriptions/EWD03xx/EWD340.html

#HackerNews #HumbleProgrammer #ProgrammingHistory #ComputerScience #EWD340 #1972

E.W.Dijkstra Archive: The Humble Programmer (EWD 340)

Hacker News May 4, 2025

Lilith and Modula-2

https://astrobe.com/Modula2/

#HackerNews #Lilith #Modula2 #ProgrammingHistory #TechInnovation #SoftwareDevelopment

Lilith and Modula-2

N-gated Hacker News Mar 27, 2025

🐢💾 Oh joy, someone unearthed a Jurassic relic from the primordial ooze of programming history: the first C compiler source code! Now you can bask in the glory of 1972 tech while pretending it’s a groundbreaking find instead of a dusty artifact only relevant to vintage nerds and digital archaeologists. 🚀✨
https://github.com/mortdeus/legacy-cc/tree/master/last1120c #Ccompiler #JurassicTech #VintageNerds #DigitalArchaeology #ProgrammingHistory #HackerNews #ngated

legacy-cc/last1120c at master · mortdeus/legacy-cc

The earliest versions of the very first c compiler known to exist in the wild written by the late legend himself dmr. - mortdeus/legacy-cc

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