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Here is the code written by André Bensoussan: https://multicians.org/vtoc_man.html https://multicians.org/vtoc_man.html
by lqet 3y ago
Here is the code written by André Bensoussan: https://multicians.org/vtoc_man.html https://multicians.org/vtoc_man.html
- coldtea 3y agoHmm, have never seen much of PL/1. Control flow aside, the syntax looks surprisingly clean.
- smikhanov 3y agoSo the answer to "how did he do it?" is obvious -- it simply wasn't too complex of a task (by modern standards).
- abecedarius 3y agoI wouldn't measure difficulty of a design problem by the complexity of a solution. "This is so much simpler than I expected" is some of the highest praise. (About this particular problem I have no idea.)
- gwern 3y agoI don't know about that: is it 'not complex' or did he succeed at the design? Implementing core components of a file system in a few pages sounds quite complex to me - I'm getting a bit scared just reading that comment explaining why the race condition is harmless.