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Simon is the guy who wrote PuTTY - he generally know his stuff. Some of this is NSFW, in the sense that you don't want it in commercial code for someone less a
by RiderOfGiraffes 16y ago
Simon is the guy who wrote PuTTY - he generally know his stuff. Some of this is NSFW, in the sense that you don't want it in commercial code for someone less able to have to support.
However, it's beautifully instructive, and a clever hack.
- gjm11 16y agoHis collection of little puzzle programs is very nice too. I don't know how the global productivity cost of the puzzles balances off against the global productivity gain from PuTTY. For all this and more, see his home page: http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/ http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/ .
- barrkel 16y agoAlso available (free) on Android under Simon Tatham's Puzzles.
- btilly 16y agoNote that this hack is actually used in PuTTY. However he points out that it violates standard coding standards left and right.