Stories by lproven

Why progress estimates are difficult

Apple Platinum: arguably the acme of classic pre-compositing GUI design

Nyttig: A personal microserver for Linux, e.g. Rasbian

Good Ideas, Through the Looking Glass (2006) [pdf]

Oberon-2, a hi-performance alternative to C++ (1997)

The case against C (The ModulaTor, 1993)

Lama: an Algol-inspired language with S-expressions and first class functions

Thoughts about the difference between European and American H/W and S/W design

“The Night Watch” by James Mickens: on the pain of systems programming [pdf]

ARM Inventors Acorn's “Dream Machine” (Circa 1994): The Galileo/TurboNutter

Does PHP have a future, or are 25 years enough?

Acorn Computer's OS strategy as of 1998 – interview with Richard Hallas

Was Acorn's RISC OS an under-appreciated pearl of OS design?

The Acorn Archimedes was the first desktop to use the ARM architecture

Thirteen Ways to Loathe Visual Basic (Verity Stob, 2000)

Jexer is an open-source 100% Java Text User Interface (TUI)

Programmers at Work: Charles Simonyi (2008)

Escape from Microsoft Word

WordPerfect used to have a native xNix version which made it to V8 for Linux

How to preserve old software – with snaps

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