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UNIX V4 tape successfully recovered: First ever version of UNIX written in C is running again

Crucial early evolutionary step found, imaged, and ... amazingly ... works Computer History Museum software curator Al Kossow has successfully retrieved the contents of the over-half-a-century old ...
Microsoft

FlashFill++: Scaling Programming by Example by Cutting to the Chase

Programming-by-Examples (PBE) involves synthesizing an intended program from a small set of user-provided input-output examples. A key PBE strategy has been to restrict the search to a carefully ...
GitHub

Helpers for Bash like shell scripting in JavaScript

jsh, pronounced "j shell", is a small JavaScript library (~20KB and no dependencies!) that provides helper aliases and functions that are similar to Bash syntax, allowing you to write shell scripts in ...
IEEE

On Code Example-Aided Just-In-Time Learning for Programming Education

Abstract: Context: Programming education keeps facing chal-lenges. A significant challenge is the mismatch between the increasing student demand and the shortage of teaching workforce on personal ...