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Conway in Haskell

Fri, 19 Jun 2026 00:00:00 +0200

At this point it’s becoming increasingly clear that I can ask Cursor to read any of the implementations of my Conway project and translate that into any other programming language that I want; this is what I’ve done last year with NASM, Scala, and Bash, and this year with Haskell.

Conway in NASM

Fri, 29 Aug 2025 00:00:00 +0200

And here we go again with vibe coding: this time with Claude, I translated the Turbo Pascal version of Conway into Netwide Assembler or NASM for Linux 64-bit.

Conway in Borland Delphi

Fri, 27 Jun 2025 00:00:00 +0200

Yet another version of my Polyglot Conway project, this time in good old Borland Delphi 1.0 (which recently celebrated its 30th anniversary!) from 1995, running on Windows 3.1, and as usual you can find the source code on my GitLab account.

Conway in Scala

Fri, 30 May 2025 00:00:00 +0200

Another week, another version of my Polyglot Conway project, this time in Scala, a version bootstrapped with the help of ChatGPT.

Conway in Bash

Fri, 18 Apr 2025 00:00:00 +0200

I’ve added a new version to my venerable Polyglot Conway project, this time as a good old Bash script, a version bootstrapped with the help of ChatGPT.

Conway in C89

Fri, 07 Feb 2025 00:00:00 +0100

Another year, another version of my Polyglot Conway project, this time for C89, also known as “ANSI C”, targeting quite a few compilers of the early 1990s, and some others from our more recent times.

The Core Idea of this Blog is Migrations

Fri, 17 Nov 2023 00:00:00 +0100

This blog, made of writing pieces I published online in various formats since 1996 to today, is the reflection of the various migrations I’ve experienced through my life.

Conway in Minimal BASIC

Fri, 11 Aug 2023 00:00:00 +0200

Last Monday I released the 59th issue of De Programmatica Ipsum, my dear monthly magazine about code, developers, and society, and this month I talked about BASIC in all of its flavors. As part of the preparation of this issue, I dived into the world of Minimal BASIC code, the one with source code line numbers, the one that would start immediately after powering up your computer, and the one that brings endless nostalgia.

Conway with the Zig Programming Language

Fri, 21 Jul 2023 00:00:00 +0200

As suggested in a previous article, this year’s candidate of my lifetime programming language learning activity is Zig, and I decided to reimplement Conway with it.

On Being a Generalist

Fri, 10 Jun 2022 00:00:00 +0200

There is a lot of discussion online these days about the relative benefits (and drawbacks) of being a generalist software developer.