[HN Gopher] Tal is the programming language for the Uxn virtual ...
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       Tal is the programming language for the Uxn virtual machine (2021)
        
       Author : tosh
       Score  : 46 points
       Date   : 2024-03-02 19:29 UTC (2 days ago)
        
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       | jll29 wrote:
       | This is a FORTH-like language by a programmer-artist who aspires
       | to live a minimalist nomadic lifestyle of self-reliance (resides
       | on a boat with his partner, no permanent home, sold most material
       | goods), and who creates minimalist computer art(ifacts).
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       | An attempt to build up a simple system with tools from scratch
       | combined with a flair of "retro"/80s, but more out of artistic
       | aspirations than to build something useful, as far as I remember.
        
         | bitwize wrote:
         | Yep, they were the "Canadian couple" I mentioned in this
         | comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39586904
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         | Artisanal software indeed.
        
       | levicole wrote:
       | Devine had a great talk about the "why" of Uxn at Strange Loop
       | last year:
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       | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T3u7bGgVspM
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       | And there was another talk that used it as an example:
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       | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=umSuLpjFUf8
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       | Both were great. I'm a big fan of 100R's work. Another language
       | of theirs worth checking out is Orca:
       | https://100r.co/site/orca.html
        
       | daltont wrote:
       | I guess the original TAL is not making a comeback:
       | 
       | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transaction_Application_Langua...
        
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