test please delete

[kali]

Liver (of census taker) with fava beans and a nice Chianti.

Onion gravy would go down well too...

Onion gravy.... mmmmmmn yum

[NickFitz]

Afternoon denizens

[NickFitz]

In the Olden Days, you used to get program listings in the computer mags, you would spend hours typing them into your computer only to find there was a fatal eror in the printout somewhere.

Good way of learning how to debug other people's spaghetti code, though

I remember one long one that my dad had typed into his BBC Micro... wrestled with it, checked, double checked, triple checked... in the end he waited for me to come home from Uni for the hols.

A quick look and I was able to see that there was a stray speck of ink on the plate when the mag was printed, which was shaped almost perfectly like a comma, and appeared in a space between two characters where no comma should be

Removed the errant comma from the code, and it ran perfectly

[zeitghost]

Afternoon denizens

[TheBigYinJames]

Good way of learning how to debug other people's spaghetti code, though

In the early days that was possible, but nearer the end of the "type your own game" era, they started to do more in machine code, so you just had long lines of comma separated data which was poked into memory by the program and executed, and if one of those numbers was wrong, you had no idea what was going on unless you could read machine code (which I could, )

Removed the errant comma from the code, and it ran perfectly

hah, it could almost be a Jonathan Creek storyline.

[BrilloPad]

To the tune of ‘Swing Low’ the rugby anthem

Please go, sweet Harriet
Go away and never come home
Please go, sweet Harriet
Fathers want their children home...

(and not stuck in bloody court for donkey’s years!)

[NickFitz]

I see Zeity's on the campaign trail

[zeitghost]

How about a thread all about the joys (or lack thereof) of the ASSIGNED GOTO in FORTRAN?

http://objectmix.com/programming-lan...-web-site.html

[NickFitz]

In the early days that was possible, but nearer the end of the "type your own game" era, they started to do more in machine code, so you just had long lines of comma separated data which was poked into memory by the program and executed, and if one of those numbers was wrong, you had no idea what was going on unless you could read machine code (which I could, )

This was one of the advantages of using Acorn machines - they had an assembler built-in to the BASIC interpreter, so the listings included the assembly language source.

That's how I started learning 6502, which was ultimately to lead to my first real job as a Junior Systems Software Engineer, writing control software for Teletext transmission units in Forth and assembler

[zeitghost]

I see Zeity's on the campaign trail

You'm got a http: too many in that there thingy...

http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/c.../2008/jul/08/1