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by zabzonk 5mo ago
> there’s a reason no other language went this way) Except of course for those that did, Haskell, Fortran for example.
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by zabzonk 5mo ago
Three things I find unlikely about this: - You wrote 100K lines of code (I've worked on several large C++ projects that were far smaller) - You wrote those lines in Python (surely the whole point of Python is to write less code) - You
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by zabzonk 5mo ago
But we are giving it a shot!
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by zabzonk 5mo ago
Not particularly relevant here, but may I point out that Google's C++ guidelines are generally seen as bad, and really only applicable to someone at Google scale, which you are almost certainly not.
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by zabzonk 5mo ago
Well, back when I wrote C++ for a living I tried to keep up with better practices and newish, more compact and sensible language features. So some code I might have written in the 1990s would almost always have overused inheritance, while w
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by zabzonk 5mo ago
Maybe just me, but doesn't most C++ code being written today not use inheritance very much, and so make virtual dispatch moot?
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by zabzonk 5mo ago
It's definitely a UK thing. And 12 is a nicer round number than 10 - ask the Babylonians!
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by zabzonk 5mo ago
Perhaps this is somewhat like male lions killing cubs that are not immediately theirs? Do the seals kill their own pups? Difficult to study, I guess.
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by zabzonk 5mo ago
And 4 new members of the Tie Club: https://martin-baker.com/tie-club/
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by zabzonk 5mo ago
Acting as a sales platform for aircraft manufacturers is also a thing. The RAF Red Arrows are probably responsible for a load of sales of the Hawk advanced trainer they use in their displays.
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by zabzonk 5mo ago
That's what I expected - I was sure the Tortoise guys would get it right eventually.
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by zabzonk 5mo ago
I loved Mercurial - still do I guess as I just installed it on the Linux Mint VM I keep around for messing with Linux. The thing I really liked about it was TortoiseHg, which provides integration between Mercurial and Windows Explorer. The
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by zabzonk 5mo ago
Otters seem to be doing quite well in town centres in the UK, along with more usual suspects: https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/dec/12/otter-ci...
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by zabzonk 5mo ago
> who spent months in harsh conditions Didn't you see him up to his groin in a giant mound comprised of batshit and cockroaches, and sounding like he was loving every minute of it? Or being cuddled by wild mountain gorillas? Or ...
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by zabzonk 5mo ago
I took her to a supermarket I don't know why but I had to start it somewhere So it started there
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by zabzonk 5mo ago
People that don't mind SF might want to look at these for some examples of anarchy in fictional action: The Day Before The Revolution, U.K. LeGuin: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Day_Before_the_Revolution The D
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by zabzonk 5mo ago
> Real programmers don’t document their programs. Probably true, but I, for one, have always liked documenting how the code I've written should be used, whether programmers calling APIs I've created, or end-users actually makin
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by zabzonk 5mo ago
As this is FOSS, I don't see why you need the security review (by who, with what qualifications?). Any users can look at the source code and arrange their own reviews as they think necessary.
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by zabzonk 5mo ago
A few thoughts: > the complexity of some instructions (e.g. DJNZ) Well, of course the idea of DJNZ was to implement a very common pattern (decrement a register and jump (normally backwards) if the result was not zero) - this tended to si
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by zabzonk 5mo ago
> strawberries the size of my fist No thanks. The most wonderful strawberries I ever tasted were wild ones picked on a disused Welsh railway line, probably a centimetre or so in size.
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by zabzonk 5mo ago
I turned everything off, but what's with the flashing ".ca" at the top of the page??
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by zabzonk 5mo ago
> was it that bad? I don't know - RCS just made more sense to me. And I really disliked RCS. You know some things are bad when something like CVS seems all warm and cuddly in comparison. > I'd have thought that alcoholism wo
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by zabzonk 5mo ago
Killed themselves after using it for fifteen minutes. I used to have to teach a commercial "Intro to Unix" course which had a section on SCCS - shudder!
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by zabzonk 5mo ago
I was convinced that VMS's versioned files thing was DEC's cunning plan to sell more disk drive space (though I didn't and still don't know what the underlying mechanism was) - I was quite glad when I learned how to tur
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by zabzonk 5mo ago
I sometimes wonder what would have happened if Atlassian had stuck with Mercurial support on Bitbucket - I don't think they can pretend that switching to git did very much for them. I love(d) Mercurial, and particularly TortoiseHg in
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by zabzonk 5mo ago
Yes, most Basics had peek and poke commands with which you could read and write specific memory locations. For example - parentheses may or may net be needed, depending on the Basic implementation: X = PEEK( 123 ) would read the by
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by zabzonk 5mo ago
could you quote the text you are referring to?
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by zabzonk 5mo ago
At the time (early to mid 1980s) I think we would say "patching". The Wordstar devs certainly did mean you to do this - the memory locations available were fully documented, and I seem to remember they supplied a small patch util
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by zabzonk 5mo ago
Yes, it was definitely a thing. The patching code had to be in Z80/8080 machine code. I wrote higher performance keyboard and display routines for my copy of Wordstar using this feature.
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by zabzonk 6mo ago
Never seen a UK doctor or nurse attempt to clean, much les sterilize, one.

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