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  1. I was just thinking about how Arizona Icon converted co-expressions to a pthreads implementation and suddenly realized it might be to make co-expressions ‘the’ way to get a separate thread in Icon.

    But this is NOT what a co-expression is meant for! I mean, this just plain is NOT what a co-expression should be thought of as. A co-expression is a way of making an Icon generator portable and able to read messages. And thus also is best to be FAST...

    #Iconlang #Icon #Unicon #ObjectIcon

  2. Стеклянная память. Как развивались голографические системы хранения данных

    Человечество придумало множество технологий долговременного хранения данных: от выбитых на камне иероглифов и глиняных табличек до современных твердотельных накопителей (хотя глиняные таблички, если подумать, тоже вполне себе твердотельные). Однако в ряду носителей информации была ещё одна необычная и довольно интересная технология, которая, несмотря на свою перспективность, так и не получила широкого распространения. Речь идёт о хранении данных с использованием стекла.

    habr.com/ru/companies/ruvds/ar

    #лазер #голограммы #голография #PhotoDigital_Storage_System #PDSS #IBM_1360 #Unicon #Holoscan #Megafetch #Holographic_Versatile_Disc #HVD #Tapestry_Media #InPhase #Project_Silica #ruvds_статьи

  3. CW: Computer programming

    Come get your #ObjectIcon sources, people! A #programming #language you probably do not yet know: github.com/chemoelectric/objec

    Easier to learn if you already know #Icon or #Unicon. Also if you know #Prolog or #Mercury, which are other languages that have goal-directed evaluation (which which are declarative, whereas the Icon family are procedural).

    (Please fork rather than expect support, though. I am an elderly disabled person.)

  4. CW: Rosetta Code

    BTW a fourth method, beyond closures, inheritance, and unlimited polymorphism, is the co-expressions of #ObjectIcon and #Icon. Which I used, for those languages. (Also #Unicon)

    A fifth option would be practically anything you can think up that uses call-with-current-continuation in Scheme. But I did the #Scheme with closures. :)

    (Side note: neither the Icons nor standard Scheme have run-time type safety. So the Python method would have worked, too)