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[dschmenk]

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[rsheehan]

Hi David et al, my name is Robert Sheehan and I am a retired lecturer in Computer Science who has dabbled in the Apple II world since I was a secondary school teacher in the early 80s. My interest in PLASMA/PLEIADES is that I use it for some of my programming on the Apple II. I wrote a rudimentary presentation program "K2" with the environment and one day I will add some more features but busy with other things at the moment. I appreciate all of the work on the environment; Lisp is fun (if slow).

[dschmenk]

Hi Robert - I love K2. So much that I gave my RGB to DHGR talk using it: https://youtu.be/b7r-92k7kBk?si=Am8t1knE9ZTMnFhz

I am pleased that you were able to develop such a sophisticated app using PLASMA. I don't always get feedback from developers as to what works well and what doesn't. I'm also glad you tried out the LISP interpreter. It requires a great deal of patience and isn't much more than a symbolic processing playground. I'm much happier with the FORTH interpreter as a REPL environment for PLEIADES. It has some debugging features I haven't seen in other FORTHs.

[rsheehan]

I must play around with the FORTH interpreter. I haven't looked into its features yet.
I was very pleased to see you use K2 for your presentation. I also intend to add DHGR (and possibly HGR) image presentation as part of K2. Busy with other projects in the meantime.