On Fri, Jul 15, 2016 at 03:37:58PM -0400, Peter Olson wrote: > > On July 15, 2016 at 5:12 AM Jaromil <jaro...@dyne.org> wrote: > > > > On Fri, 15 Jul 2016, Peter Olson wrote: > > > > > You misunderstand what the IOCCC is about. It's a game. Nobody > > > trying to write useful code will do anything like what IOCCC writes. > > > > well, I even argue is software-art :^) back 15 years ago I facilitated > > the inclusion of some IOCCC entries in this exibition originally shown > > at the MAK in Frankfurt, which then went pretty much around the world > > http://www.digitalcraft.org/iloveyou/c_code.htm > > > > but yes, its definitely not polite nor useful to obfuscate code that > > people uses. to the contrary, I think literate programming is the way > > I'm a fan of Donald Knuth as well. My funny story is that when I was in > college, I got an offer from Addison-Wesley to preorder the seven volume set > "The Art of Computer Programming" for the low. low price of $119. It's now > more than 40 years later and volumes 5, 6, and 7 are still missing :-) I'm > glad I didn't take the offer :) On the other hand it is terrifically cool > that he got so frustrated with the mechanics of typesetting that he developed > TeX.
I'm still waiting for volume 7. It was supposed to have some interesting stuff on recursive coroutines. -- hendrik _______________________________________________ Dng mailing list Dng@lists.dyne.org https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng
