The Old C Dog

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Programmer. Techie. Problem solver. And you would be too if you were me.

Also, if I'm the old C dog, why is my profile picture a cat?

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The Old C DogMar 22, 2024
Go away already. Murray Gell-Mann would like a word, because everything these things generate is so plausible sounding and yet so wrong. This is what you get when you hitch the output of a few million politicians, journalists and car salespeople to a few million GPUs.
The Old C DogJan 27, 2024
Enjoyed the talk by @virtualcolossus today.
The Old C DogJul 2, 2023
A graph not a tree, as it clearly contains cycles.
The Old C DogJun 3, 2023
How about "not ever?"
The Old C DogNov 26, 2022
Following multiple hashtags in one column seems to be Mastodon's superpower.
The Old C DogNov 18, 2022

My daughter is visiting for the weekend and has this book from her college library.

In the mid 80s there was a CPU called the transputer.

It was designed to be ubiquitous (like the transistor I guess) and had some interesting ideas around parallelism, but it didn't really catch on.

The transputer was programmed in Occam which seems to be quite low level. There's very little in the way of types (words and arrays of words), but the concept of channels is built in.

I found myself wondering if Occam influenced Erlang, but they seem to have been invented around the same time.

#programminglanguages #programming #occam #transputer

Transputer - Wikipedia