Sunday, October 4, 2020

Show 004 - Turbo Rascal

Episode 004 of Next Without For, Turbo Rascal, is posted!


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Links from the episode:

PunyInform - a new library for writing text adventures for old computers: https://vintageisthenewold.com/punyinform-a-new-library-for-writing-text-adventures-for-old-computers/
 
Ozmoo: A Z-machine interpreter for the Commodore 64 - https://github.com/johanberntsson/ozmoo/ 


CBM .PRG Studio: http://www.ajordison.co.uk/

Turbo Rascal SE: https://lemonspawn.com/turbo-rascal-syntax-error-expected-but-begin/

List of systems supported by TRSE: https://lemonspawn.com/support-sheet/




TRSE Slack channel for devtalk : turborascal.slack.com

Wednesday, July 22, 2020

Show 003 - Fortran

Episode 003 of Next Without For, Fortran, is posted!


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Links from the episode:

The History of Fortran I, II, and III: John Backus - ACM SIGPLAN Notices, Vol. 13, No. 8, August 1978: http://www.softwarepreservation.org/projects/FORTRAN/paper/p165-backus.pdf

Wikipedia articles:
Fortran - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fortran
IBM 704 - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_704

FORTRAN - the Pioneering Programming Language: https://www.ibm.com/ibm/history/ibm100/us/en/icons/fortran/

TIOBE Language Index: https://www.tiobe.com/tiobe-index/

Abstracting Away the Machine: The History of the Fortran Programming Language, Mark Jones Lorenzo, published 2019 - https://www.amazon.com/Abstracting-Away-Machine-Programming-TRANslation/dp/1082395943/

The most comprehensive account of Fortran history in a single document:
Fortran IV Programming for Engineers and Scientists, Second Edition, by Paul W. Murrill & Cecil L. Smith, published 1973 - https://www.amazon.com/Fortran-Programming-Murrill-Cecil-Smith/dp/B0015G0N0U

Fortran 77: A Structured, Disciplined Style, by Gordon B. Davis and Thomas R. Hoffman - https://www.amazon.com/Fortran-77-Structured-Disciplined-Style/dp/0070159033

Theory and Problems of Programming with Fortran Including Structured Fortran, Schaum’s Outline Series, by Seymour Lipschutz and Arthur Poe - https://www.amazon.com/Schaums-Problems-Programming-Including-Structured/dp/B000MHO8SQ

The Fortran I Compiler (PDF) - https://web.stanford.edu/class/archive/cs/cs339/cs339.2002/fortran.pdf

Sunday, June 21, 2020

Show 002 - Randy and Earl

Episode 002 of Next Without For, Randy and Earl, is posted!


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Links from the episode:

No links this time! Randy and I just chat about our programming background and cover some upcoming topics.