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40 years of Turbo Pascal: Memories of the Coding Dinosaur that Revolutionized IDEs

Posted on December 10, 2023 by EditorDavid

TechSpot remembers that Turbo Pascal “stands out as one of the first instances of an integrated development environment (IDE), providing a text-based interface through which developers could write their code, compile it, and finally link it with runtim… Continue reading 40 years of Turbo Pascal: Memories of the Coding Dinosaur that Revolutionized IDEs→

Go Programmers Surveyed: Most Use Linux or MacOS

Posted on December 9, 2023 by EditorDavid

The Go team conducted a survey of Go Developers in August — and has just released the results. Among the findings: “90% of survey respondents saying they felt satisfied while working with Go during the prior year,” while 6% said they were dissast… Continue reading Go Programmers Surveyed: Most Use Linux or MacOS→

Switching Converter for EEPROM Programmer Taxes Solderless Breadboard

Posted on December 8, 2023 by Dan Maloney

We all know that solderless breadboards have their limitations. All that stray capacitance can play hell with circuits, especially high-speed stuff, but they’re so darn useful that avoiding them in …read more Continue reading Switching Converter for EEPROM Programmer Taxes Solderless Breadboard→

Wio Terminal Makes Passable Oscilloscope

Posted on December 7, 2023 by Bryan Cockfield

There was a time when getting a good oscilloscope not only involved a large outlay of capital, but also required substantial real estate on a workbench. The situation has improved …read more Continue reading Wio Terminal Makes Passable Oscilloscope→

Java Tries a New Way to Use Multithreading: Structured Concurrency

Posted on December 2, 2023 by EditorDavid

“Structured concurrency is a new way to use multithreading in Java,” reports InfoWorld.

“It allows developers to think about work in logical groups while taking advantage of both traditional and virtual threads.”

Available in preview in Java 21, str… Continue reading Java Tries a New Way to Use Multithreading: Structured Concurrency→

BBC BASIC Is Back In a Big Way

Posted on November 30, 2023 by BeauHD

An anonymous reader quotes a report from Hackaday: The BBC has a long history of teaching the world about computers. The broadcaster’s name was proudly displayed on the BBC Micro, and BBC Basic was the programming language developed especially for that… Continue reading BBC BASIC Is Back In a Big Way→

Can Num2bits be used to guard against underflows?

Posted on November 26, 2023 by user2284570

In circom, Num2bits() from circomlib is primarily intended for converting an Integer into an array of bits.
But because of it’s optional parameter, it can be used to prevent overflows such as :
inp = Num2bits(120);
inp.in = (3);

would che… Continue reading Can Num2bits be used to guard against underflows?→

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