From: Adam Thornton <athornton@gmail.com>
To: Will Senn <will.senn@gmail.com>,
The Eunuchs Hysterical Society <tuhs@tuhs.org>
Subject: Re: [TUHS] ratfor vibe
Date: Thu, 3 Feb 2022 13:00:07 -0700 [thread overview]
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On Wed, Feb 2, 2022 at 9:01 PM Will Senn <will.senn@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> For example, even in the tiny copy program example, from the introductory
> chapter, once you include the primitive getc and putc subroutines, there
> are 7 symbolic constants: MAXLINE, MAXCARD, NEWLINE, STDIN, STDOUT, EOF,
> SPACE and character, which is really an integer and gets replaced with
> integer by some mythical preprocessor (chapter 8). Anyhow, in the modern
> world, MAXLINE and MAXCARD don't really have meaning, but they can
> magically be treated as lines of a file, the rest do have meaning, but they
> don't evaluate to the same things in Fortran-land as in modern-land. STDIN
> is 5 and STDOUT is 6 (card reader and punch LUNs, again some magic that
> lets them be treated as terminal input and output), EOF is -1, SPACE is
> 32, NEWLINE is 10.
>
> Pretty sure that EOF is _still_ -1. SPACE and NEWLINE also look pretty
> familiar and their values haven't changed, although we might spell them a
> little differently these days.
>
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Thread overview: 75+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2022-01-31 20:46 Will Senn
2022-02-01 15:37 ` arnold
2022-02-01 15:52 ` Ralph Corderoy
2022-02-01 16:58 ` Clem Cole
2022-02-01 17:02 ` silas poulson
2022-02-02 7:47 ` arnold
2022-02-03 5:47 ` [TUHS] more about Brian Rich Morin
2022-02-03 7:44 ` markus schnalke
2022-02-03 8:18 ` Rich Morin
2022-02-04 2:23 ` Adam Thornton
2022-02-04 2:34 ` [TUHS] more about Brian... [really Rust] Jon Steinhart
2022-02-04 13:07 ` Thomas Paulsen
2022-02-04 23:18 ` Dan Cross
2022-02-04 3:28 ` [TUHS] more about Brian Dan Stromberg
2022-02-04 5:11 ` Rich Morin
2022-02-04 21:22 ` [TUHS] Go vs. Rust, and etc. (was: more about Brian...) Greg A. Woods
2022-02-04 21:37 ` Richard Salz
2022-02-04 22:32 ` Steffen Nurpmeso
2022-02-04 23:05 ` Thomas Paulsen
2022-02-04 23:15 ` Seth J. Morabito
2022-02-05 1:41 ` Adam Thornton
2022-02-04 7:38 ` [TUHS] more about Brian Andy Kosela
2022-02-04 8:10 ` Steve Nickolas
2022-02-04 8:44 ` markus schnalke
2022-02-04 9:16 ` Steve Nickolas
2022-02-04 18:54 ` John Cowan
2022-02-04 19:45 ` Thomas Paulsen
2022-02-04 20:28 ` Hellwig Geisse
2022-02-04 21:03 ` Jim Capp
2022-02-04 22:30 ` Steffen Nurpmeso
2022-02-04 22:25 ` Steffen Nurpmeso
2022-02-06 0:56 ` Larry McVoy
2022-02-06 1:10 ` Will Senn
2022-02-06 4:52 ` Rob Pike
2022-02-06 4:58 ` Dan Halbert
2022-02-06 5:06 ` Will Senn
2022-02-06 6:19 ` Ed Carp
2022-02-06 6:27 ` Rob Pike
2022-02-06 6:40 ` Stuart Remphrey
2022-02-06 6:44 ` Bakul Shah
2022-02-06 19:08 ` Steffen Nurpmeso
2022-02-06 12:52 ` Ralph Corderoy
2022-02-06 13:14 ` Ed Carp
2022-02-06 14:13 ` Dan Cross
2022-02-06 14:15 ` Larry McVoy
2022-02-06 16:31 ` Warner Losh
2022-02-06 18:36 ` [TUHS] more about Brian... [ really GC vs malloc/free languages ] Jon Steinhart
2022-02-06 19:27 ` Jon Steinhart
2022-02-06 19:33 ` Warner Losh
2022-02-06 19:37 ` Jon Steinhart
2022-02-06 20:21 ` [TUHS] COFF is over there Ralph Corderoy
2022-02-06 16:16 ` [TUHS] more about Brian Brad Spencer
2022-02-08 5:22 ` Ed Carp
2022-02-03 18:57 ` [TUHS] ratfor vibe silas poulson
2022-02-04 8:26 ` arnold
2022-02-04 19:41 ` John Cowan
2022-02-10 15:18 ` Ralph Corderoy
2022-02-03 4:00 ` Will Senn
2022-02-03 4:31 ` Al Kossow
2022-02-03 5:16 ` Warner Losh
2022-02-03 20:00 ` Adam Thornton [this message]
2022-02-04 6:06 ` Ori Idan
2022-02-04 17:35 ` Adam Thornton
2022-02-04 17:44 ` Will Senn
2022-02-01 18:19 Noel Chiappa
2022-02-01 18:47 ` Clem Cole
2022-02-01 19:10 ` Dan Cross
2022-02-01 19:39 ` Clem Cole
2022-02-01 21:21 ` Dan Cross
2022-02-01 21:33 ` Clem Cole
2022-02-01 23:12 ` John Cowan
2022-02-01 19:39 ` Richard Salz
2022-02-01 22:30 ` Erik E. Fair
2022-02-02 0:54 ` Yeechang Lee
2022-02-01 21:50 ` Win Treese
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