OODL: How to write unmaintainable code

1999-11-20 Thread DeRobertis
I suggest we make the following our official style guide: http://mindprod.com/unmain.html OK! Just kidding... Also see http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=99/11/17/2148249

Re: OODL: FWD: Re: [MP3 ENCODER] Free CVS hosting

1999-11-20 Thread DeRobertis
At 2:55 AM +0100 on 11/20/99, M. Uli Kusterer wrote: It means I should of edited the message before posting it -- that only applies to a free MP3 encoder. There's a certain German company which claims all rights to MP3. You mean the Fraunhofer institute? They invented it, yes. But I don't think

OODL: How to write unmaintainable code

1999-11-20 Thread Alain Farmer
Anthony: I suggest we make the following our official style guide: http://mindprod.com/unmain.html OK! Just kidding... Alain: (laughter) Alain: I was indeed fun to read the sarcastic article that tells you how NOT to do it. All kidding aside, we can use this as a counter-example in our

OODL: Libundo - undo/redo and memmap

1999-11-20 Thread Alain Farmer
Clip: Libundo is a simple, easy-to-use lib which manages recording and playback of undo/redo info for app developers. Alain: Infinite undo/redo would be a wonderful feature for OpenKard. It could also make OpenKard recordable. Uli: I think we can do undo the way SuperCard does it, that is,

Re: OODL: The Future of Interpreter

1999-11-20 Thread Alain Farmer
Anthony: Bison will not be used in the next Interpreter. Instead, I intend to write my own parser-generator tool, which will be done in (yes) HyperCard. Maybe portions in other things, but I doubt it. It will at least have a pretty HC front-end. Alain: Surely Perl would be a much better

Re: OODL: The Future of Interpreter

1999-11-20 Thread M. Uli Kusterer
Fortunately, it's depression. The thing is suacidal. I've already called a psychologist for it. MY GOD!!! YOU'RE KILLING IT! G Be definition, a finite state machine is not understandable :( I think mine might be a _little_ better. The algorithm is _very_ hard to follow. Regardless of how nice

OODL: OFF TOPIC: C statements and spaghetti code

1999-11-20 Thread M. Uli Kusterer
Here's a little side dish my sister just e-mailed me. I think it fits in the discussion of coding styles Anthony touched with his posting. auto accident; register voters; static electricity; struct by_lightning; void *where_prohibited; char broiled; short circuit; short changed; long johns;