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 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- - Rick Stevens, Principal Engineer rstevens@xxxxxxxxxxxx - - VitalStream, Inc. http://www.vitalstream.com - - - - Try to look unimportant. The bad guys may be low on ammo. - ----------------------------------------------------------------------
