Re: Stop using US controlled software stacks!!!

2020-04-19 Thread Jean-Christophe Helary
> On Apr 20, 2020, at 5:07, Guido Stepken wrote: > > And what about Apple buying and removing Open Sourced FoundationDB from > Internet? > > "In March 2015 the FoundationDB Community site was updated to state that the > company had changed directions and would no longer be offering

Re: Stop using US controlled software stacks!!!

2020-04-19 Thread Jeronimo Pellegrini
On Sun, Apr 19, 2020 at 10:11:07PM +0200, Tomas Hlavaty wrote: > thanks for the links You're welcome! I thought I'd add other links, but it was laready too long a message. (Links to books and pages showing the intimate reltionship of Google and NSA; the episode when Microsoft spied on Brazilian

Re: Stop using US controlled software stacks!!!

2020-04-19 Thread Tomas Hlavaty
thanks for the links > With nuclear energy, there came a requirement for more > authoritarianism, stronger vertical power structures. Why? Because > the potential for damage is huge. See, for example, the radioactive > boy scout, David Hahn [6]. I do recall that there was some similar >

Re: Stop using US controlled software stacks!!!

2020-04-19 Thread Tomas Hlavaty
Guido Stepken writes: > Well, perhaps you could find a few papers about "Frank" at Viewpoint > Research homepage. Bert Freudenberg, Ian Piumarta, Alan Kay certainly have > the full "Frank" code. I might have heard something about that research. Probably related to that concise vector graphics

Re: Stop using US controlled software stacks!!!

2020-04-19 Thread Tomas Hlavaty
Tomas Hlavaty writes: > Guido Stepken writes: >> Using US software stacks, even if open source and under a free license are >> not tolerable. For any nation, for any kind of project. > Where can I learn more about your work? probably here: https://stepken.blogspot.com/ hidden behind

Re: Stop using US controlled software stacks!!!

2020-04-19 Thread Guido Stepken
What about US sanctions against China about Huawei using free, open sourced Android? What about USA advising Germany, Switzerland to stop buying gas from Russia - see Grenell's letters to industry: http://www.xinhuanet.com/english/2019-12/24/c_138655403.htm (B.t.w.: Grenell's now commander in

Re: picoLisp 19.12: variable length array in structure fixes

2020-04-19 Thread Andras Pahi
Hi Mike, You don’t need energy, you need some patience. Andras ===> time pil huge.l -bye OK-UTF8 OK-Montgomery OK-Leibniz OK-math OK-forth OK-parse2list OK-mapreduce OK-pow OK-destr OK-test-car OK-bitwise # reduce redefined # pow redefined OK-4clojure # pow redefined OK-AoC15 OK-SimplyScheme #

Re: Stop using US controlled software stacks!!!

2020-04-19 Thread Jeronimo Pellegrini
[ sorry for duplacates; I've realized I have sent this from a wrong From: address, so I'm sending it again ] Hello. I don't usually write here, but I believe this is important. I agree that the tone used initialy by Guido was really bad. But there are strong arguments that lead to what he

Re: Stop using US controlled software stacks!!!

2020-04-19 Thread Guido Stepken
Well, perhaps you could find a few papers about "Frank" at Viewpoint Research homepage. Bert Freudenberg, Ian Piumarta, Alan Kay certainly have the full "Frank" code. But this is not the point. The point is, that MetaCola was a code generator, where you can implement whole programming languages

Re: Stop using US controlled software stacks!!!

2020-04-19 Thread Tomas Hlavaty
Jo-To Schäg writes: > However the PicoLisp community does not like to solve problems for > other people. Especially if it is motivated for political reasons. > Do not expect Alex to spend his time on satisfying your paranoia or > political motivations. Where I live we had freedom of movement

Re: Tiny C Compiler

2020-04-19 Thread Guido Stepken
Well, perhaps i may recommend you an excellent course into "C system programming". IMHO it's basic knowledge, nobody can succeed without. This guy is a highly talented teacher, IMHO. Example lesson, worth watching at first: http://cs-education.github.io/sys/#/chapter/5/section/0/activity/0 Here

Re: Stop using US controlled software stacks!!!

2020-04-19 Thread Tomas Hlavaty
Alexander Burger writes: > In case of pil21, where is the problem? > llvm assembler to convert to machine code ^ I think he is pointing here > Do you seriously believe the libraries contain backdoors? I don't think he said anything like that. My understanding is that he said that llvm is

Re: Stop using US controlled software stacks!!!

2020-04-19 Thread Tomas Hlavaty
Guido Stepken writes: > That group implemented a whole operating system in MetaCola language within > 20.000 lines of code only. GUI, TrueType Fonts, mouse, keyboard driver ... > everything included, called "Frank" for Frank - enstein. interesting, where can I learn more? -- UNSUBSCRIBE:

Re: Stop using US controlled software stacks!!!

2020-04-19 Thread Guido Stepken
Ok. Fine. Then let's look, how many lines it needs to write your own compiler. Means: Source language -> Windows .exe binary. What do you think, how many lines are needed to generate 64-bit Machine code COFF executable format for Intel, AMD Ryzen, Thread Ripper, EPYC on Windows? I can tell you:

Re: Stop using US controlled software stacks!!!

2020-04-19 Thread Tomas Hlavaty
Guido Stepken writes: > Picolisp, thanks to Alex' brilliant ideas, behind the scenes, serves as > prototype of a new kind of "minimalistic, highly efficiency" software > strategy within the EU. Goal is: Back to the roots, small modules, security > review everywhere, minimal hardware requirements,

Re: Stop using US controlled software stacks!!!

2020-04-19 Thread Tomas Hlavaty
Hi Guido, Guido Stepken writes: > Using US software stacks, even if open source and under a free license are > not tolerable. For any nation, for any kind of project. > > US Cloud Act, Patriot Act, by law, force US companies as well US > organisations in general, such as Linux Foundation as well

Re: Stop using US controlled software stacks!!!

2020-04-19 Thread Tomas Hlavaty
andr...@itship.ch writes: > I have to disagree with your tone. I empathise with his tone. This issue is frustrating. Just this week a friend of mine was told by her employer to install whatsapp so that they can keep her updated about the suspended work due to the pandemic. I told her about the

Re: Stop using US controlled software stacks!!!

2020-04-19 Thread Jo-To Schäg
Dear Guido, all our time on earth is limited. We all got our own priorities. I think the PicoLisp community gladly spends time teaching people. Even multiple times. However the PicoLisp community does not like to solve problems for other people. Especially if it is motivated for political

Re: Stop using US controlled software stacks!!!

2020-04-19 Thread Guido Stepken
Alex, this is not the point. One day LLVM will inject trojan code, because US government, by law, tells them to do so! With Cloud Act and Patriot Act US government can advise any US company or organisation to implement evil code. Can you do a full code review at every update coming for LLVM? I

Re: Stop using US controlled software stacks!!!

2020-04-19 Thread Guido Stepken
8k ... well, looks like totally bloated ... somebody implemented Ian Piumarta's Lysp in Free Pascal, using 192 lines of code only. I haven't tested, but should come out at under 4k, one memory page for the binary. https://github.com/tangentstorm/lysp Finally, to execute Lisp like code, you only

Re: picoLisp 19.12: variable length array in structure fixes

2020-04-19 Thread George-Phillip Orais
Hi tankf33der, Thanks for sharing your huge.l test, I tried it on my pil64 on WSL and all passed! 20:27 $ pil huge.l + OK-UTF8 OK-Montgomery OK-Leibniz OK-math OK-forth OK-parse2list OK-mapreduce OK-pow OK-inc-db # worker redefined # +Inc c redefined OK-inc-db-v2 OK-destr OK-test-car OK-bitwise

Re: picoLisp 19.12: variable length array in structure fixes

2020-04-19 Thread Mike
hi all, > If you are interested I have patched the 19.12 32bit sources to compile > without GCC. > I have attached the changed files: pico.h, main.c, apply.c and flow.c My testing status for https://github.com/picolisp/picolisp 1. pil @lib/test.l + clang - ok clang+asan - ok tcc-git-

Re: Stop using US controlled software stacks!!!

2020-04-19 Thread George-Phillip Orais
Hi Alex, Indeed! How can I missed that hehe if I remember correctly, the character for commenting was not yet ‘#’ right? So cool!! thanks for reminding me ;) BR, Geo On Sun, Apr 19, 2020 at 6:37 PM Alexander Burger wrote: > On Sun, Apr 19, 2020 at 06:10:25PM +0900, George-Phillip Orais

Re: Stop using US controlled software stacks!!!

2020-04-19 Thread Alexander Burger
On Sun, Apr 19, 2020 at 06:10:25PM +0900, George-Phillip Orais wrote: > You mentioned nokolisp, I also tried that and from what I remember the > source code was only runnable on an old DOS? Then 8kLisp is even better: https://software-lab.de/8kLisp.tgz It run on CP/M, and the whole

Re: Stop using US controlled software stacks!!!

2020-04-19 Thread Alexander Burger
Hi Guido, > Look at LLVM generated bloat and compare with Nokolisp. Less is more!!! In > terms of size as well as of security. True, LLVM is huge (as is gcc, and other equivalent systems), but this is irrelevant because I *use* it only to translate *my* code. The generated pil21 'picolisp'

Re: Stop using US controlled software stacks!!!

2020-04-19 Thread George-Phillip Orais
Hi Guido, You mentioned nokolisp, I also tried that and from what I remember the source code was only runnable on an old DOS? One thing that was cool about nokolisp was it was intended for Nokie phones right? How about Lisp dialects made in Japan? Im interested to hear your thoughts about them

Re: Stop using US controlled software stacks!!!

2020-04-19 Thread Guido Stepken
Am Sonntag, 19. April 2020 schrieb : Picolisp, thanks to Alex' brilliant ideas, behind the scenes, serves as prototype of a new kind of "minimalistic, highly efficiency" software strategy within the EU. Goal is: Back to the roots, small modules, security review everywhere, minimal hardware

Re: Stop using US controlled software stacks!!!

2020-04-19 Thread Guido Stepken
Hi Alex! I have enough proof, that USA is weaponizing its whole developer community to spy upon us. Facebook SDK for Android, in fact, not only is a highly sophisticated library for programming Android Apps, but also a spy tool, that copies all contents, your business contacts, ... onto facebook

Re: Stop using US controlled software stacks!!!

2020-04-19 Thread Alexander Shendi (Web.DE)
Oh dear, Since you (Guido Stepken) are already ranting about US software stacks (e.g. LLVM), I will take the opportunity to add my 2 Euro-cents. What about your operatjng system? I presume you are using Linux. Have you yet audited the ca. 5 MLoc of code that are the Linux kernel? Other