The SPITBOL Project is pleased to announce that Unix SPITBOL 13.01 is available. It can be downloaded from Github: HARDBOL/SPITBOL: 13.01 tar.gz 13.01 zip This release supports floating-point arithmetic and save files. Load modules and the loading of external functions are still not supported.
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SPITBOL Update: SPITBOL X86-64 can compile “hello world”
January 4, 2013 – 16:35
The SPITBOL project is pleased to announce some progress in porting MACRO SPITBOL to x86-64 Linux. (I use MINT, so this should also work on straight Ubuntu.) This version is able to compile such simple programs as “hello world” but is not yet able to compile itself. It can be found at http://github.com/hardbol/spitbol It has […]
SPITBOL Status Report
December 10, 2012 – 19:37
Early this summer I started work on what I thought would be a modest change: convert SPITBOL from using the GNU GAS assembler to my favorite X86 assembler, NASM. I also wanted to do some code cleanup as part of this. Alas! What I thought would take a few weeks took a few months. I […]
SPITBOL License now ‘GPL V2 or later’
December 10, 2012 – 19:16
I have updated the license for MACRO SPITBOL from ‘GPL v3 or later’ to ‘GPL v2 or later’. This was motivated by a conversation with Rob Landley, who first made me aware that that GPLv2 and GPLv3 are not compatible. An explanation of why this is so can be found in the following post by […]
How to Write SPITBOL in Cyrillic (Russian)
October 26, 2012 – 09:06
I just noted use of a a search phrase that resulted in reaching this blog: бои спитболи The second word is SPITBOL in Cyrillic (the Russian alphabet). Ochen Xorosho (Very good). thanks,dave
In Memoriam: J. Christopher Stevenson, Tyrone Woods, Glen Doherty and Sean Smith
October 17, 2012 – 00:18
Though I try to confine myself to technical matters in this blog, I have noted that in the coverage about the attack on the American Embassy in Libya in which four Americans were slain, only the man who held the most senior position, Ambassador J. Christopher Stevens, is named. The three others are left unnamed. […]
Introduction to the Macro SPITBOL MINIMAL Reference Manual
October 2, 2012 – 09:17
The source code for MACRO SPITBOL contains extensive documentation. I have extracted the specification of the MINIMAL (Machine Independent Macro Assembly Language) and the specification of the OSINT (Operatint System INterface) and converted the plain text to HTML, resulting in what is now the “MINIMAL Reference Manual. As part of this effort I wrote an […]
On being the maintainer, sole developer, and probably the sole active user of the programming language SPITBOL
September 2, 2012 – 23:36
As best as I can tell, I am in what I believe to be a unique situation: I am the maintainer, sole developer, and probably the only active user of the programming language SPITBOL. (If you know of anyone else who is maintaining an open-source implemenation of a programming language that has only one user, […]
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