@jws The original K&R book is thinner than most product pamphlets. :)
Screw it.
I'm doing the utils in Java since all the tools are there already. I can accept a Java solution knowing I can do what I want later.
Eliminating Sigil and Calibre from my workflow completely is more important than my sense of aesthetics being offended.
And…I can do it right at my leisure.
@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