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honeybadger1965

12 karma · joined October 9, 2025

Retired client/server applications developer - now hobby projects for the hell of it
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honeybadger1965··on Mellivora OS
Mellivora OS is a from-scratch hobby OS that boots on real i486+ hardware or in QEMU. It includes a custom HBFS filesystem, ring 3 user-mode execution, a DOS-inspired interactive shell, 34 syscalls, a Tiny C Compiler, 56 bundled assembly programs, and 11 C samples.
honeybadger1965··on Gulf of Mexico – The Perfect Progamming Language
a light-hearted satirical take on programming :)

and TodePond can surely explain the concept better than myself

I took the idea and just ran with it - my implementation adds many features and skips some of the original

and, made an attempt at adding a language creation tool set

suppose the data ends up in a recursive spiral somewhere in the omniverse!

honeybadger1965··on Gulf of Mexico – The Perfect Progamming Language
The perfect programming language - Based on the conceptual design by Lu Wilson (TodePond)
honeybadger1965··on Time Warp IDE – Complete environment for old-school coding
TimeWarp IDE compiles three classic educational programming languages (PILOT, BASIC, Logo) from old-school computer languages into modern native Linux executables using GCC. No interpreters or emulators - generates standalone binaries with zero runtime dependencies.

Why it matters: • Educational languages designed for teaching (not just programming) • Native performance vs interpreted execution • Preserves classic syntax while enabling modern distribution • Perfect for computer science education and retro computing

Quick demo: pip install timewarp-ide timewarp-compiler hello.bas -o hello && ./hello

https://github.com/James-HoneyBadger/Time_Warp

The compiler generates optimized C code with custom runtime libraries for each language. PILOT handles branching and text interaction, BASIC supports arrays and line-numbered programming, Logo creates turtle graphics output.

Open source, MIT licensed. Built in Python with comprehensive documentation and sample programs.