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SPITBOL x64 provides raw power and speed for non-numeric computation on the x86_64 architecture
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Is development of spitbol completely halted? #19

Closed aksr closed 1 year ago

aksr commented 1 year ago

Seeing there is no commits after 2020 in any of the repositories from Dave Shields, I was wondering what is happening.

Does anyone knows what happened?

CheyenneWills commented 1 year ago

I have been trying to get in touch with Dave Shields so see how he wants to address some items. If there is something urgent, I do have commit authority

aksr commented 1 year ago

Is everything OK, do you know?

Nothing is urgent, I just recently discovered SNOBOL4, and I'm very impressed with it. I'm just disappointed the allegedly-best implementation isn't complete.

Anyway, if you want to test something, I'm here.

daveshields commented 1 year ago

I no longer work on SPITBOL

Dave

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Is everything OK, do you know?

Nothing is urgent, I just recently discovered SNOBOL4, and I'm very impressed with it. I'm just disappointed the allegedly-best implementation isn't complete.

Anyway, if you want to test something, I'm here.

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aksr commented 1 year ago

If it's not a problem, could You tell us why?

CheyenneWills commented 1 year ago

I no longer work on SPITBOL Dave

Dave, I sent you a private email.

Cheyenne

CheyenneWills commented 1 year ago

To answer the question.. development will continue for Spitbol.

aksr commented 1 year ago

@CheyenneWills: Thank you. If it's not a problem, could you be more specific? What's next to be worked on? Maybe loading of modules or external functions?

CheyenneWills commented 1 year ago

@CheyenneWills: Thank you. If it's not a problem, could you be more specific? What's next to be worked on? Maybe loading of modules or external functions?

At the moment it will probably be just some needed housekeeping and minor cleanup

CheyenneWills commented 1 year ago

As per a conversation with David Shields, I'm taking over the maintenance of the SPITBOL project. I have been in contact with both Mark Emmer and Robert Goldberg.

I've just:

Going forward, there are some immediate housekeeping items I would like to do. Some of which will be consolidating or renaming some of the repositories.

Longer term the one item I would like to research is to see if LLVM could be used as the target for the minimal translation. This might open up the ability to easily implement unicode and target more architectures.

CheyenneWills commented 1 year ago

Just a note that I am actively (though slowly) working through some implementation problems and will be pushing updates.

So to answer this particular ticket, yes there still is ongoing development for spitbol.