From: scj@yaccman.com (scj@yaccman.com)
Subject: [TUHS] Happy Programmers' Day!
Date: Tue, 15 Sep 2015 08:27:54 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1e69b028f0bba306576914ab0a37de42.squirrel@webmail.yaccman.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.BSF.2.11.1509152351110.99112@aneurin.horsfall.org>
>>
>> Are you sure you want to use that radix as your standard?
>> You risk putting a hex on our profession.
>
Ah, memories. One of the biggest challenges we faced in porting Unix to
the Interdata 8/32 was starting to do everything in hex. I can truly say
that I learned it by single-stepping through bootstrap code and reading
the panel lights...
As a friend of mine once said to a young programmer "I've written boot
loaders with fewer bytes than you use for variable names!"
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2015-09-15 15:27 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-09-12 21:49 Norman Wilson
2015-09-15 14:10 ` Dave Horsfall
2015-09-15 15:27 ` scj [this message]
2015-09-16 3:10 ` Greg 'groggy' Lehey
2015-09-16 12:54 ` John Cowan
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2015-09-16 2:13 Doug McIlroy
2015-09-12 21:26 Dave Horsfall
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