• Re: the computer built to last 50 years (2/2)

    From anthk@21:1/5 to Salvador Mirzo on Tue Mar 18 11:23:37 2025
    [continued from previous message]

    -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/cabrĂ³n 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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