gyrcom
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4 years ago
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on: Ask HN: Failed project you spent 15 hours/week for 5 years on?
Hey, I've done this several times. In the 90's I spent over 10,000 hours on a 2d real time board game similar to Starcraft for the Amiga. In 96 I gave up on the possibility of an Amiga comeback and spent a couple of thousand to build a windows development system to post the game to. Well it turned out to be impossible as the M$ system is so defective.
Once used to perfection it is difficult to program a turd.
Linux was so young that I did not go there and built an ISP instead.
In 2000 I spent a year producing a website in Rebol to analyze the nutritional qualities of foods, did not go anywhere.
In 2014 I started the development of an events website so that anyone can post their events for free, got it working just in time for covid, 7 years, which oddly enough destroyed events. Have a look at GIDOUT.COM if you like it drop me a line.
gyrcom
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5 years ago
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on: Ask HN: Mind bending books to read and never be the same as before?
William Saroyan, The Human Comedy.
Yup,, that's the one. Explains more about the human condition than any other literature that I have encountered.
gyrcom
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6 years ago
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on: REBOL Oneliners
Over the years I have used 20+ languages, starting with CobolC and Watfor, and now python is my daily driver.
Rebol is by far the most enjoyable language I have ever used, very similar to Smalltalk and Lisp. More productive than any other system out there and a very small footprint.
The language is unbelievably versatile as you can overload any word and create your own mezzanine functions super quickly.
The drawback are that you can really messup if you are not careful. Another thing is that compiling is out of the question as the self modifying code possibilities of this language make it truly dynamic.
Carl did a marvellous job on this language. The design is impeccable. If you like messaging then this is THE language.
