I still see "INCORRECT STATEMENT" in my dreams.

Uh... brother?!

Just kidding... That sounds like my journey as well. I had friends in the neighborhood who also had the TI-99/4a. We all had Cub Scouts and Boy's Life magazine listings to key in.

Did you have the data cassette recorder? We used to try to "load programs" from Michael Jackson's Thriller album.

Yep. Totally. And there was this dreadful wait for a load that could (randomly) fail and you’d need to go thru the whole process again!

Hopefully staying as such. I like Numbers, but I suspect I could totally replace my use of it with Emacs org-mode.

I thought Keynote, Pages, and Numbers were complimentary. Or part of an iCloud subscription or something. Is that changing?

Or not.

I think ed is still a great editor for specific tasks. As a plan 9/9front user, when you get yourself into trouble, it's sometimes the only editor you've got left (like when graphics doesn't initialize, which I've not seen on 9front — ever?)

It's really not bad, and you can use it for scripting like sed, but it's clunkier.

Was that not basically in the same vein as Google's NaCL? Was that not largely abandoned due to the success of WASM.

lol?

I think this thinking makes sense if you've not used enough programming languages pragmatically.

But, if you squint, great API design is a bit like embedded domain specific language design as well.

I think there's room for both.

correct.

Looks neat. Can't use it due to the license.

Why not?

My understanding is that any organizations have an absolute ban on using anything with AGPL because it affects any other code that touches it and its considered too high a risk.

Not exactly how it works but I do understand the concern. The other option is to "just give it away" by not having it and being sherlocked... Now? You have to ask permission first, commercial licensing is a thing.