OT: Requesting C advice

[Rick Stevens]

On Tue, 2007-05-29 at 12:00 -0700, Les wrote:
> On Tue, 2007-05-29 at 11:03 -0700, Rick Stevens wrote:
> I have to admit to confusing PASCAL and C.  I used both in the early
> years, along with Basic.  I was in the Navy and couldn't afford
> software.  I wrote my own from the language descriptions in the books.
> This included editors, compilers, preprocessors (I used the same
> preprocessor with all my compilers), and debuggers.  I still have a
> collection of a small box of audio tapes in storage with my altair
> that contains much of that code.  It was easier to make it portable
> than to write another, especially since it was in assembly code for
> Z80 at the time.  I also wrote my own virtual machine for lisp because
> the Z80 I had kept overwriting the stack, which messed up the stack
> oriented lisp code.  Because I wrote so much of this stuff, and ported
> it to multiple machines, I simply confused it all.
> 
>     I should have checked the manuals before I responded.  I remember
> reading the arguments about size, but I no longer remember the details
> you mentioned, Rick.  I have to plead stupidity for not checking the
> manuals and old age for bad memory.  But a lot of this occurred more
> than 30 years ago, and a lot of code has passed through the old gray
> matter since, so please forgive my frailty, and excuse my stupidity,
> and Thank You for straightening me out.

Hey, no problem, Les.  I'm probably in there pitching with you regarding
age!  We're allowed "senior moments" now and then!  Heheheheheh! ;-p

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