Rochus

Complexity in music is a very ambiguous "measure". Look at e.g. Brubeck's "Take five", which many consider "complex" because of the unusual time signature; but it&#x…

This is amazing. How long did it take you to implement it, i.e. reach that high level of Ansi test conformance? Have you been able to reuse concepts e.g. from ABCL?

What is this? Any description somewhere? Is this rather like Suno or SoundCloud?

I'm aware of Extempore and its predecessor, but I think they pretty much have the same problem, with no elegant solution (at least I didn't see one when studying the docs and thesis). Maybe …

I'm still not sure on which composition language to focus on. I definitely don't like languages where a lot of the syntax is "hidden" in strings (such as e.g. in Tidal). Lisp has a…

Sounds nice, thanks. Do you also have experience in other live coding languages? Can you share your thoughts about advantages/disadvantages of Lisp compared to others?

Popper explains that falsificationism is a methodological-philosophical proposal, what he calls "meta-science", and is therefore not subject to its own criterion; different domains of inquir…

> there is no better background music to code to than Steve Reich Music for 18 Musicians is indeed very well suited; Bach works also very well for me. But not every piece of the said composers work…

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It really is a pretty exciting project, even if I do have a few more gray hairs now (at least the ones that are left). Thanks for the Byte magazine references; I wasn't aware of these articles; v…

Reddit is somehow broken. I moderate the Oberon subreddit and don't manage to permanently remove protected status. When I go away and come back a few days later it is again protected and people h…

It’s also worth noting that Jan (who strictly uses the pronouns var / val) belongs to one of the most historically marginalized groups in modern tech: One-Pass Compiler Enthusiasts. They were rep…

Thinking independently and learning strategies to find their own way are among the most important foundations for anyone interested in technology or who wants to work in the field. If people are curio…

Cool. What is the primary use case? What features in particular make it more useful than TCC alone? TCC as such is looking for the standard C libraries on the system. How do you handle this with your …

There is actually no good reason why the SYSTEM features use LONGINT instead of typed pointers. C at least has type support, even if the compiler ignores it for many situations. Micron is doing well; …

A good opportunity to consult wikipedia once again ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oberon_(operating_system) ), or to ask your trusted LLM.…

There are better alternatives than assembly. The Oberon approach would already benefit if low-level code no longer operates behind the compiler's back and instead supports full type checking. My …

Thanks. Preparations for the migraion of AOS/Bluebottle are underway. Concerning memory safety: it's only memory safe if you don't use the SYSTEM module features, and OberonSystem 3 (an…

> I would expect that a language in which, e.g. matrix multiplication can be natively expressed, could be compiled to more efficient code for such. That's exactly the question we would hope t…

Several historical design choices within the IR itself have created immense complexity, leading to unsound optimizations and severe compile-time bloat. It's not high-level enough so you e.g. don&…

Technically yes, but since Apple locked down their OS completely, you might have to compile the tools yourself on your machine so the OS allows them to start at all.

I don’t like LLVM either, because its size and complexity are simply spiraling out of control, and especially because I consider the IR to be a total design failure. If I use LLVM at all, it would be …

It all boils down to the fact that ideas should be viewed as tools rather than dogmas, and famous people are neither infallible nor prophets simply because they had a few good ideas.

Threre are at least two projects I'm aware of, but I don't think they are ready yet to make serious measurements or to make optimal use of LLVM (just too big and complex for most people).

Thanks. The A2 Fox compiler actually has an ARM backend, so I would be surprised if nobody has migrated it to the Raspi yet. The 2003 version of AOS/Bluebottle (not A2) is on my list of interesti…

Yes, the original Oberon (which the system is based on) has upper-case keywords (and some other orthodoxies). If you are looking for something more modern, go to https://github.com/roc…

Well, a lot of ideas (and I mean really a lot) from the sixties are still very relevant today, and indeed, there are also problems discovered in the sixties still waiting for a solution. We don't…

The system is up extremenly fast (compared to Linux), but then it takes pretty long to find the USB hub and the keyboard/mouse. Maybe I can still speed this up.

Cool, tell me whether it worked. Unfortunately my mini HDMI adapter is broken and I have to wait for the new to arrive. But I already soldered the headers to the UART pins and observed the system star…