Reply to: 14000 lines in one source

[hyperD]

Yes, but why does duck, goose, swan, baby budgies taste so different from chicken?

And why does duck have so much (apparantly disproportionate) fat when cooked? I mean, surely it's the Lizzie Bardsley of the winged world.

(makes nice roast potatoes though...)

[threaded]

Yes, but why does duck, goose, swan, baby budgies taste so different from chicken?

[hyperD]

Lizards taste like chicken. And aligators are a mix of slightly fishy chicken. In actual fact, quite alot of "exotic" cooked flesh tastes of chicken, except for politicians who taste like maggots. I've had Witchetty Grubs in Oz and a mate of mine from Sierra Leon eats locusts.

Here's a possible reason for tastes (if you're as bored as me):

http://www.improb.com/airchives/pape...i4/chicken.htm

hyperD in "hyperD & Lucifier Box exotic food thread" mode

[Emperor Dalek]

To be fair, supermarket chicken breasts are only 40% chicken anyway: they are 30% water and 30% hydrolysed pork protein.

[Emperor Dalek]

Do they taste like chicken?

[Emperor Dalek]

Try exterminating any permies who are not up to scratch. It's surprisingly effective as a management technique.

[OrangeHopper]

Bloody Hell!

You can't go away for a week's holiday without your code being passed on to some jumped up contractor who thinks he knows better.

He has even eaten my egg and cress sandwich!

[threaded]

A client wanted me to comment all the code, so I wrote a little tool to create comments just like the above.

Don't know why I bothered. Afterwards I found I could've downloaded a variety of tools that did much the same.

[Fleetwood]

arguably

[AtW]

I once saw this as comment:

Would it not be more correct to say "saw the following as comment"?

[Fleetwood]

I once saw this as comment:

*
* Add one to counter
*
ADD 1 TO W-COUNTER

Well helpful, that was... NOT.

[AtW]

You guys are such a bunch of geeks!

[Churchill]

I used to be able to disassemble z80 & 8080/8085 code by eye, more or less.

Had to write a disassembler for 6809 and 6303 coz of all the relative jumps...

GA (General Automation) produced minicomputers in the 60s/70s/80s until the PC took over.

The Amstrad 1512 was a little faster than the GA16-220 I used... and had far more memory.

Apparently a lot of GA computers are still struggling on because they were extensively used in machine control and stuff like that.

Ford in Bridgend used quite a lot at one time.

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[VectraMan]

I used to be able to disassemble z80 & 8080/8085 code by eye, more or less.

I could do Z80 pretty much at one stage.

I remember having a print out of the assembler for the ORIC-1 ROM, all 16K of it, that I used to spend hours figuring out. That was probably when I was 11 as well. Oh so sad.

As for comments, I find the people that harp on about comments are usually the ones that fill the code with pointless comments, like...

GetHeight() // get the height
SetHeight() // set the height

etc. Also one colleague of mine would have some fancy macro that added a comment to each function, so each function would have

// TODO: Write description of function

at the start, because nobody ever filled in the comment. Worst still is when people write comments, but don't update the comments when the code changes. This is what happens when people blindly follow what they think they're supposed to do, rather than do what's actually useful. The same can happen to a lesser extent with specifications.

[MrsGoof]

I've disassembled (manually) about 4k of 6502 assembly

was that the BBC micro, those were the days, when I were a lad we lived in.......