test please delete

[zeitghost]

Trying to debug some PIC assembler I wrote some 7 years ago.

It's not going too well.

Feck me, it's complicated.

Maybe it needs rewriting.

[zeitghost]

Byeeeee

[Alias]

Byeeeee

[NickFitz]

Home again

Turns out that driving 112 miles, spending a few hours on conference centre chairs, then driving 112 miles back again isn't the panacea for a still-in-recovery-mode back that one might have thought it would be

[Bunk]

Trying to debug some PIC assembler I wrote some 7 years ago.

It's not going too well.

Feck me, it's complicated.

Maybe it needs burning.

FTFY

[NickFitz]

Trying to debug some PIC assembler I wrote some 7 years ago.

It's not going too well.

Feck me, it's complicated.

Maybe it needs rewriting.

It's probably quicker and easier to rewrite it than decipher it after seven years

[NickFitz]

In other news, one of the guys presenting just now is either a chap I used to work with at Yahoo, or has the same name as him. I was sat too far back in the hall to be sure which

It was him

Wish I'd gone and said hello now, but I needed to find the free coffee

[NickFitz]

Trying to debug some PIC assembler I wrote some 7 years ago.

It's not going too well.

Feck me, it's complicated.

Maybe it needs rewriting.

Some thoughts on Systems Programming (PDF): http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/...nightwatch.pdf

You might ask, “Why would someone write code in a grotesque language that exposes raw memory addresses? Why not use a modern language with garbage collection and functional programming and free massages after lunch?” Here’s the answer: Pointers are real. They’re what the hardware understands. Somebody has to deal with them. You can’t just place a LISP book on top of an x86 chip and hope that the hardware learns about lambda calculus by osmosis.

[mudskipper]

mudskipper is...

... pissed as a fart.

[mudskipper]

Feck, gotta walk home because Mr ms is watching the footie.