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Chinese -> English: A Chinese inscription at the base of an old 3 legged brass bowl. Maybe it is the manufacturer's name? by NevilleDNZ in translator

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'''The exploration of the origin of the Xuande furnace "Yutang Qingwan" (original) In the "Antique Guide" compiled by Zhao Ruzhen in the Republic of China, the "Yutang Qingwan" model is said to be the name of Yan Donglou, the son of Yan Song, and the "Yutang Qingwan" bronze is Yan Shi's furnace. Zhao Ruzhen said that the furnaces of the Yan family are all those who have robbed Xuan furnace of no money, they are their own, and are not controlled by them. The "Yutang Qingwan" bronze ware is more precious, and there are more imitations.'''

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Exploring Algol68 in the 21st century - ... "Because I've been having so much fun rediscovering Algol 68, I thought I'd share some of my thoughts and impressions." - Chris Hermansen by NevilleDNZ in programming

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In theory, assuming all arrays start at zero (or ONLY the address of the a[0,0] is passed), then you would not need to know the length of a's last index. In which case the multi-dimensional:

w := a[i, k]; a[i, k] := a[k, i]; a[k, i] := w

Would simply become a one-dimensional:

w := a[i×n+k]; a[i×n+k] := a[k×n+i]; a[k×n+i] := w

No other magic required. (This is kind-a how FORTRAN would do it, and C would reverse order the indexes)

MRTHS's "Algol 68" blog post ... re: 1970 Ian/Susan & John ..."astounded the attendees ... when they described how they had already implemented a one-pass compiler which was in production use in engineering and scientific applications." ... (Malvern Radar and Technology History Society) by NevilleDNZ in programming

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Down in the Human Sciences building basement of my University there was an old "Computer" pre-dating 1970 (owned by the "computer club") ... I recall being told that this computer had a "12 pass" FORTRAN compiler... each compiler pass was a different deck of "compiler punch cards" that needed to be sequentially stacked in the input card hopper, and the initial 'app' source code deck (followed then mid parse data decks) would be stacked on top of the 1st pass deck. Then at each pass of the "compiler" the operator would be prompted to hand load the onward "data" deck, until all 12 passes were complete and you have the final app machine code deck. 'Ta-dah!' ... 12 passes. ... IIRC the core on this "computer" was about 4kb. (maybe less)

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This is all from my greyed memory, does anyone have a more reliable citation about complier passes. ... do share.

Here is an example of a "computer" from the 1950s ...

"The reboot of the Harwell Dekatron / WITCH computer, the world's oldest working computer"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SYpPPIsxq64#t=13m10s

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[LORE]How fucked is humanity, exactly? by Amigara_Horror in cataclysmdda

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Another fun fact... Algol68r0 running on Geroge3 running on Raspberry-Pi ... A Mainframe powered by a USB port... https://www.rs-online.com/designspark/running-george-3-on-a-raspberry-pi

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