Ed is the standard unix text editor. It's also strange. This is a video about ed, why it is the way it is, and an alternative vision of computing in the world that may just be coming back.
https://t.co/bSX121Pqup
deep in the forth mines with hacked together forth, in a hacked together virtual machine, running in a hacked together web-based forth IDE
the next video approaches
my view so far -
forth is simple and beautiful. and, like all simple and beautiful things, the closer you look, the more you realise that it is in fact a tightly woven web of disturbing complexity
but that might just be me
We're hosting an event next Monday on how to make unusually good developer content.
Join us at the tldraw office to hear behind-the-scenes talks from:
- @mattpocockuk
- @neoeno
- @TodePond
- @steveruizok (if there's time)
Ed is the standard unix text editor. It's also strange. This is a video about ed, why it is the way it is, and an alternative vision of computing in the world that may just be coming back.
https://t.co/bSX121Pqup
Oh I ALSO made this choose your own adventure story using an online clone of ed that I wrote using ed, in an online environment simulating computing of the time, even down to the sound. That was maybe unnecessary, but did it anyway. https://t.co/iUQvDyNwwl
@cmdrzoke there are also a great few interview videos with him more recently as part of his Turing award page https://t.co/ApRjEe45CB โ some gems there!