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VictorTaelin / hoc_historical_overview.md
Last active September 2, 2024 19:34
Higher Order Company: Complete Historical Overview - WIP

Higher-Order Company: Complete Historical Overview

This document is a complete historical overview of the Higher Order Company. If you want to learn anything about our background, a good way to do so is to feed this Gist into an AI (like Sonnet-3.5) and ask it any question!

My Search for a Perfect Language

It all started around 2015. I was an ambitious 21-year-old CS student who, somehow, had been programming for the last 10 years, and I had a clear goal:

I want to become the greatest programmer alive

@PM2Ring
PM2Ring / tk_bezier_track.py
Last active April 10, 2023 23:08
Cubic Bezier tracks with constant speed animation, using Tkinter
#!/usr/bin/env python3
''' Create a closed track from cubic Bezier curves, and animate a circle
following the track at constant speed.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/B%C3%A9zier_curve#Cubic_B%C3%A9zier_curves
https://gist.github.com/PM2Ring/d6a19f5062b39467ac669a4fb4715779
Press the Add button to add black control dots to the Canvas. The first
@zhester
zhester / MTar.py
Created October 4, 2013 20:43
In-Memory Tar Archive Creation
#!/usr/bin/python
##############################################################################
#
# MTar.py
#
# Zac Hester
# 2011-12-22
#
# This behaves similarly to Python's built-in tar support. However, this is
# a simplified library that writes extremely primitive tar files. The