Daily Archives: 2024-01-04

Article note: It's quite pretty, very much something danamania/nanoraptor would reproduce, interestingly historical without context, AND its context is an absolutely classic Apple story ( https://vintagecomputer.ca/the-history-of-apples-pascal-syntax-poster-1979-80/ ). Jef Raskin made a lovely color-coded explainer of Pascal syntax that exactly matched the behavior of Bill Atkinson's Apple Pascal compiler, and showed it to Steve Jobs. Steve Jobs didn't understand the color coding, handed it to a hip artist buddy (Tom Kamifuji) to finish off without communicating that the colors were meaningful so they got mangled, then only put Kamifuji's name on the final product.

Article note: It pleases me that Rob's technical successes #1 and #2 are "Formal Specification" and "Competing Implementations" which are things whose absence I find concerning about a bunch of younger languages.

Article note: Oh man yes please. The current tooling for connecting the PL and PS of their FPGASoC parts (plumbing between PetaLinux and Vivado) are a shitfight.