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here https://discordier.github.io/sam/WeepingElf wrote: ↑Mon Feb 03, 2025 3:45 am It doesn't require much hardware to get a synthesizer to speak. In the 1980s, the Commodore 64 home computer had a simple built-in synthesizer, and there was a program called SAM/Reciter for it which made this synthesizer speak, with an unnatural-sounding but intelligible voice.
That one appears to be a port of the original program. In the 1980s, JavaScript of course wasn't a thing yet.xxx wrote: ↑Wed Feb 05, 2025 5:22 amhere https://discordier.github.io/sam/WeepingElf wrote: ↑Mon Feb 03, 2025 3:45 am It doesn't require much hardware to get a synthesizer to speak. In the 1980s, the Commodore 64 home computer had a simple built-in synthesizer, and there was a program called SAM/Reciter for it which made this synthesizer speak, with an unnatural-sounding but intelligible voice.
Actually, one of the Dead Sea Scrolls was written in what turned out to be a local dialect of Javascript.WeepingElf wrote: ↑Wed Feb 05, 2025 7:40 amThat one appears to be a port of the original program. In the 1980s, JavaScript of course wasn't a thing yet.xxx wrote: ↑Wed Feb 05, 2025 5:22 amhere https://discordier.github.io/sam/WeepingElf wrote: ↑Mon Feb 03, 2025 3:45 am It doesn't require much hardware to get a synthesizer to speak. In the 1980s, the Commodore 64 home computer had a simple built-in synthesizer, and there was a program called SAM/Reciter for it which made this synthesizer speak, with an unnatural-sounding but intelligible voice.
No, you confused Javascript and Jawa script. Jawas have of course been common in the area around the Dead Sea for thousands of years.alice wrote: ↑Thu Feb 06, 2025 3:08 pmActually, one of the Dead Sea Scrolls was written in what turned out to be a local dialect of Javascript.WeepingElf wrote: ↑Wed Feb 05, 2025 7:40 amThat one appears to be a port of the original program. In the 1980s, JavaScript of course wasn't a thing yet.
Damn it, and I was sure there was a research grant in there somewhereWeepingElf wrote: ↑Thu Feb 06, 2025 3:43 pmNo, you confused Javascript and Jawa script. Jawas have of course been common in the area around the Dead Sea for thousands of years.alice wrote: ↑Thu Feb 06, 2025 3:08 pmActually, one of the Dead Sea Scrolls was written in what turned out to be a local dialect of Javascript.WeepingElf wrote: ↑Wed Feb 05, 2025 7:40 am
That one appears to be a port of the original program. In the 1980s, JavaScript of course wasn't a thing yet.
Are you sure you're not being misled by the standard German pronunciation of <w>?They are written with <w>, at least according to Wookiepedia.alice wrote: ↑Fri Feb 07, 2025 3:21 pmDamn it, and I was sure there was a research grant in there somewhereWeepingElf wrote: ↑Thu Feb 06, 2025 3:43 pmNo, you confused Javascript and Jawa script. Jawas have of course been common in the area around the Dead Sea for thousands of years.