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A draft of a proposed GNU extension to the Algol 68 programming language has been published today at https://algol68-lang.org/docs/GNU68-2025-004-supper.pdf.

The Algol 68 programming language got a new homepage: https://www.algol68-lang.org.

We just got official DWARF codes assigned to Algol 68, and adapted the GCC front-end to use them.

During tonight poke online office hours our friend hdzki came with an interesting use case.

It is often the case in binary formats that certain elements are separated by some data that is not really used for any meaningful purpose other than occupy that space.

Mohammad-Reza Nabipoor has written a nice short tutorial called "Learn the Poke Language in Y minutes".

Editing data with GNU poke mainly involves creating mapped values and storing them in Poke variables.

The development of GNU poke is progressing well, and we keep hopes for a first release before the end of the year: we are determined for something good to happen in 2020!

This weekend I finally implemented support for the so-called "integral structs" in poke.

GNU poke is, first and foremost, intended to be used as an interactive editor, either directly on the command line or using a graphical user interface built on it.

Poke struct types can be a bit daunting at first sight.

The ID3V1 tag format describes the format for the tags that are embeded in MP3 files, giving information about the song stored in the file, such as genre, the name of the artist, and so on.

Poke has loops.

FOSDEM 2020 is over, and hyperlink support has just landed for GNU Poke!

Byte endianness is an important aspect of encoding data.

I just committed support for styling in printf.

The Poke type definitions can be seen as a sort of declarative specifications for decoding and encoding procedures.

GNU poke is a pretty new program and it introduces many a new concept.

The Rabbit Herd will be meeting the weekend from 26 July to 28 July 2019, in Frankfurt.

The Rabbit Herd will be meeting the weekend from 1 June to 3 June 2018.

I maintain several checklists as part of my organizational system.

The Rabbit Herd will be meeting the weekend from 16 March to 18 March.