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  • Re: Interactive Development (was Re: Any interesting PDP/TECO photos o

    From John Ames@3:633/280.2 to All on Fri Nov 15 09:34:56 2024
    Subject: Re: Interactive Development (was Re: Any interesting PDP/TECO
    photos out there?)

    On Thu, 14 Nov 2024 22:19:26 -0000 (UTC)
    Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> wrote:

    There is a modern system that does this sort of thing in a slicker
    way, I think, than any ROM BASIC: that is a Jupyter notebook.

    My C64's zero-to-READY. time is about three seconds. How long does it
    take your machine to boot, log in, launch a browser, and load up
    Jupyter? ;P


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  • From John Ames@3:633/280.2 to All on Sat Nov 16 10:08:00 2024
    Subject: Re: Interactive Development (was Re: Any interesting PDP/TECO
    photos out there?)

    On Fri, 15 Nov 2024 22:13:03 -0000 (UTC)
    Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> wrote:

    You want a terse language like TECO, where the
    most frequently used commands are just one or two letters/key
    presses. Just like in the modern screen editors. =20
    =20
    By =E2=80=9Cmodern screen editors=E2=80=9D I hope you don=E2=80=99t mean =
    the vi/vim family ...

    I mean, it's also true of nano.


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