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Questron
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Questron
9y ago
If I'm as busy as OP (claims to be), then no way. EDIT: Think about marathon runners: they drink water and electrolytes. I'm pretty sure I can handle a workday fully concentrated without eating every three hours.
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Questron
9y ago
It's: "Look! I'm busy! I'm important! I eat special food!"
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Questron
9y ago
Yes, but three times in 8 hours? I think it's more of an unhealthy habit to constantly eat. That's how you get diabetes.
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Questron
9y ago
Weird. You need food during an eight hour shift?
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Questron
9y ago
You can create closures in CBM BASIC V2 by referencing arrays or creating thunks as an extension. But that's beside the original point. Implementing is not a lot of work but since my mega-deriver already solves the problem (derivation)
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Questron
9y ago
Not really in machine language or even BASIC (see below).
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Questron
9y ago
Yes, pointers to pointers etc. are difficult to grasp, but then again, so is passing functions as arguments. Also, information wasn't as readily available then as it is now. Anyways, to make a long story short, here's "mega-d
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Questron
9y ago
Probably hadn't thought of passing a subroutine address to a routine in z80 machine language he was familiar with?
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9y ago
Only the condition code was removed. Otherwise the parent is right and there really is an enormous amount of instructions. Fortunately less than intel, but still a lot.
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9y ago
All the different instructions are listed in intel's instruction reference manuals. What is not very wise about this article is that he's using AT&T syntax. It adds one pointless level between the actual assembly and the progr
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9y ago
There's also something else: Try shifting unsigned char x to right. >> 1 through 3 produce correct results, 4 changes the shift to some optimization too early, and the >> 5 the correctly optimized version. It's definit