@streakmachine Blame Niklaus Wirth. :)
@jws It should be in the language definition itself and not a 3rd party library that attempts to correct the deficiency.
Then again. when languages like C were invented, they had to run on machines only marginally more powerful than a rock so…
@jws Some of my most glorious disasters happened with a C compiler.
The truly catastrophic things, though, I did with assembler :)
// @matigo @streakmachine @kdfrawg
@kdfrawg Funny you should mention that. Had to dig this out of storage a few weeks ago and build a VM to run it on.
// @streakmachine @larand
@jws In my ideal universe, any read off an initialized variable, and it doesn't matter if it is a simple ordinal, should result in an exception.
@larand I have some text documents I stored in a custom compression format based off the sixpack algorithm.
Of course, I long since lost that code.
I hope those documents weren't important because I am never reading them again.
// @streakmachine @kdfrawg
@kdfrawg …If you need a character set larger than 256 characters to express yourself, you might be overthinking it.
// @larand
@kdfrawg I will say that it is not as bad as it used to be. Office 2000, for instance. Every time I saved a document that got past a certain size or a spreadsheet exceeded a certain number of cells or workbooks, I wondered if I was sending it to it's death.
// @streakmachine @larand
I am developing a grudging respect for the Microsoft Code editor.
Don't tell VIM, okay?