🚀 go-pugleaf

On Thu, 1 Mar 2018 01:17:16 -0600, Charles Richmond
<nume...@aquaporin4.com> wrote:

>On 2/28/2018 5:51 PM, Peter Flass wrote:
>> Bob Eager <news...@eager.cx> wrote:
>>> On Wed, 28 Feb 2018 16:12:32 -0600, Charles Richmond wrote:
>>>
>>>> On 2/27/2018 7:00 PM, Bob Eager wrote:
>>>>> On Tue, 27 Feb 2018 16:58:48 -0600, Charles Richmond wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> Back in the 1980's (and well within the purview of this newsgroup)
>>>>>> there was an article in BYTE magazine on solving a pentomino puzzle
>>>>>> The article contained a 6502 assembly language program for solving the
>>>>>> exact puzzle mentioned.  Can anyone point me to which issue of BYTE
>>>>>> contained this article???
>>>>>>
>>>>>> A pentomino (or 5-omino) is a polyomino of order 5, that is, a polygon
>>>>>> in the plane made of 5 equal-sized squares connected edge-to-edge. ...
>>>>>> When reflections are considered distinct, there are 18 one-sided
>>>>>> pentominoes. When rotations are also considered distinct, there are 63
>>>>>> fixed pentominoes.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> I've done a lot of Googling to no avail...  I'm hoping that someone
>>>>>> here recalls this magazine article!
>>>>>
>>>>> I found an article on polyominoes, but only up to order 4.
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>> Where did you find the article???  Was it in BYTE magazine???
>>>
>>> Yes.
>>>
>>>    https://archive.org/details/byte-magazine-1979-11?q=pentominoes
>>>
>> 
>> Looking at the TOC reminded me how much I used to like Byte in the old
>> days, before they went over to the dark side.
>> 
>
>Yes!  BYTE was wonderful and stimulating when it had substantive content 
>instead of just advertising pieces.  Although it was kind of good to 
>download source code, the cessation of printing source code with the 
>articles was a step away from substantive programming articles.

I've always found that keying the code does something that downloading
and studying it doesn't.  Don't know if it's the process of running
every character of it through one's nervous system in the typing
process or whether it's fixing the inevitable bugs that are introduced
by that process, but it does something.