On Sat, 03 Feb 2018 00:37:25 -0500 Phil Budne <p...@ultimate.com> wrote:
> > Last year Eric Raymond (The Cathedral And The Bazaar guy) and a few > > others took the ugly machine translated C code from the last known > > Fortran version and rewrote/structured it into something that is > > much more readable and maintainable. > > To (apparently) quote the new version(*): "Well, that was remarkably > pointless." > > To me, a GREAT part of the magic of the original game is that it makes > a silk purse using a sow's ear (and my first two paying programming > jobs were using FORTRAN, and then working on a FORTRAN compiler)! > > I recall thinking the tables (back before we called them data > structures) were a thing of beauty when I first saw them. > > (*) http://www.catb.org/~esr/open-adventure/notes.html I agree about the silk purse comment. I have a copy of 'ed' in FORTRAN; it was very useful sometimes. _______________________________________________ Simh mailing list Simh@trailing-edge.com http://mailman.trailing-edge.com/mailman/listinfo/simh