Re: the computer built to last 50 years (2/2)
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Salvador Mirzo on Tue Mar 18 11:23:37 2025
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-Forth/Lisp to bootstrap anything. With Forth you can create tons of tools
with dictionary words, and with Lisp you can create a Math Cas with less than 200
lines, enough to Calculus. From a Forth machine with I/O, you can create a ZMachine
(zmachine.ps exists as a base in GhostScript), thus, you can run from Zork
to Tristram Island, Rogue, Anchorhead, Tetris, Madbomber and even Star Trek.
For users, knowing both English and Spanish makes you mega-powerful.
Italians, German, Norvegian/Swedish/Dane and French speakers will
be able to read either in Spanish or English and simple news, and you now
are able to communicate with almost 3/4 of the world.
I'm not talking about reaching to a Shakespeare/Wilde or Cervantes/Borges level,
but enough to read some newspaper/blog and understand a 90% of it.
Forget the Spanish subdialects; once you speak like a news anchor omiting all the local jargon (except the uber common curse words like
joder/cabrón and so on)
the 99% of the Spanish speaking world will understand you
perfectly well.
If not, the online RAE dictionary will cover *any* word in *any* dialect
with *any* sense, no matter how obscure.
Ditto with English. Albeit as a native Spanish speaker, the British English media feels more convoluted and 'poetic' than American English books/articles.
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