Re: Top 10 most common hard skills listed on resumes...

On Tue, 10 Sep 2024 14:30:29 +0100
Bart <bc@freeuk.com> wrote:

On 10/09/2024 12:55, David Brown wrote:

On 10/09/2024 12:52, Bart wrote: 

 

I've archived your post for if/when I get back to that project.
(If I ever use Forth, it'll be on my own terms. I just tried it to
see if it's still breathing:
 
  c:\qapps>qq forth 
  Bart-Forth
  Type bye to stop 
  > 2 2 + . 
  4 
  > bye 
 

 
But it handle :
 
: 2 1 ;
2 2 + .
 
and get the answer 2 ?  :-) 

 
Apparently:
 
   c:\qapps>qq forth 
   Bart-Forth
   Type bye to stop
   > : 2 1 ; 
 
   > 2 2 + . 
   2
   > 
 
 

 

So it looks like I already thought of it as my version.)
 

To give more background, bare ZX81 had 1kB RAM (including video
RAM). 

>
You must mean /excluding/ surely? Otherwise there wouldn't be
much left from 1KB! 

>
There is not much left.  But there is a trick: boundary between
video memory and rest is movable, as you fill other part available
screen area shrinks.  It does not take long time to have machine
completely filled out with no free space left (and IIRC some
small screen area for out of memory message) 

>
So that meagre 1KB had to be shared?
 

 
Yes.  24 lines of 32 characters took 768 bytes, and the OS and
BASIC took another 125 bytes.  There was not a lot of space for
user code and data! 

 
An OS /and/ BASIC takes 125 bytes? You can't really complain about
bloat here! Windows is probably 20GB and doesn't have Basic.
 
 
 

I think that Windows comes with VBScript, which can be considered
Basic dialect, installed by default. It certainly was still here in
latest incarnations of Win10. I didn't check if it presents in 11.

Checked Wikipedia. Still here. Removal planned for 2027 or later.