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Article #4652Re: Source code quotes
From: s... Steve Baur
Date: Thu, 27 Sep 1990 22:19
Date: Thu, 27 Sep 1990 22:19
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My favorite source code quote was in a large assembly language program on an Apple ][. The program was so huge, that it could not be compiled all in one chunk, and had to be broken up into small files due to UCSD P-system editor limitations. There was one very hairy region that was commented: The following code is very complex. Sorry for not having any comments, but I ran out of space in the editor and had to delete them all. Another good one can be found in GNU source code: [From obstack.h] One motivation for this package is the problem of growing char strings in symbol tables. Unless you are "fascist pig with a read-only mind" [Gosper's immortal quote from HAKMEM item 154, out of context] you would not like to put any arbitrary upper limit on the length of your symbols. -- Steve Baur (slb%neptu...@hub.ucsb.edu)
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