Posted by jpluimers on 2025/11/12
I forgot both to archive this 10+ year old G+ post and schedule a blog post about it This is nice #geekporn. ASCII Art that’s truly useful.….
ASCII to bezier drawn images in a very clever way.
Found it back when searching for prior blog posts on ASCII art, because of my yesterday’s blog-post ASCII Art Archive, so here it finally is: the links about how to go from ASCII art to bezier images. Have fun!
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Posted by jpluimers on 2025/10/01
[Wayback/Archive] Steve Troughton-Smith: “I’m sure everybody is sick of …” – Mastodon
I’m sure everybody is sick of hearing about ChatGPT by now, but one OP feature it has is the capability to translate code between different programming languages, for example from Objective-C to Swift (or vice versa). An incredible accelerant, if nothing else. This was indeed the final push I needed to get @broadcastsapp over the finish line on its migration, and Broadcasts v3.1 doesn’t have a single line of ObjC left 🫡
–jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2025/07/16
I originally missed this as back then I was in the midst of managing trouble in my parental family, unaware I was already having rectum cancer. Then things went fast, not even including the Covid-19 years, so I was glad last year I got reminded of this mid-2019 article:
[Wayback/Archive] Alan Turing Wrote Object-Oriented Code In C And Ran It On BEAM – De Programmatica Ipsum writes a lot of interesting things on programming paradigms, starting with
In his rare 1994 book “Object-Oriented Programming In C” Axel Tobias Schreiner explains how to do inheritance, class methods, class hierarchies, and even how to raise exceptions using nothing else than pure, simple, pointer arithmetic-filled, ANSI C.
then arguing basically most of not all modern languages share the majority of programming paradigms and all these paradigms are repeats of the past:
But none of this is new. Smalltalk, arguably the precursor of object orientation, had collect and select methods which were the grandparents of our more common map and filter functional friends.
What sets modern languages apart is that they the majority covers all the paradigms you might need, just differing in how well they support the paradigm-du-jour.
It means programming language wars should have been a thing of the past for about two decades now.
Please let that sink in.
Oh: if you look for that ANSI C book, here it is: [Wayback/Archive] https://www.cs.rit.edu/~ats/books/ooc.pdf [Wayback PDF View/PDF View]
Via: [Wayback/Archive] De Programmatica Ipsum: “”In his rare 1994 book “Object…” – mas.to
--jeroen
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