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  • Why? (Was: Free giveaway: Dr. Dobb's Journal, Annual C Issue, Aug. 1989

    From Kenny McCormack@21:1/5 to Kalevi Kolttonen on Fri Jun 7 14:47:39 2024
    In article <v3v5k4$23ri3$1@dont-email.me>,
    Kalevi Kolttonen <kalevi@kolttonen.fi> wrote:
    Hello!

    Giveaway, takeaway, call it what you want,
    but this is the deal:

    I am giving away Dr. Dobb's Journal, Annual
    C Issue, August 1989. Fetch it from Helsinki
    and it is yours for free.

    Why?

    I mean, get it when someone wants to give away a large collection of mags,
    to clear space in their home and/or to do a good deed, but what s the point
    for just a single issue?

    Just out of curiosity, of course.

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  • From Kalevi Kolttonen@21:1/5 to Kenny McCormack on Fri Jun 7 17:26:31 2024
    Kenny McCormack <gazelle@shell.xmission.com> wrote:
    Why?

    I mean, get it when someone wants to give away a large collection of mags, to clear space in their home and/or to do a good deed, but what s the point for just a single issue?

    Just out of curiosity, of course.

    I don't have a large collection, I only have two Dr.
    Dobbs magazines. The one I am giving way is the C issue,
    the other is an OS Issue from 1988 if I remember right.
    I could give away that one as well if someone wants it.

    I have no use for this magazine, but as it is a special
    issue related to C, I thought it is better to give it
    to someone still in the Usenet and wanting to have it.

    Of course the easiest solution for me would be to
    throw it into the trashcan, but the magazine does
    contain some interesting C history so someone might
    still want it for historical reasons.

    If nobody wants it, I'll just get rid of it. But I
    will wait for a week or so for responses.

    br,
    KK

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  • From bart@21:1/5 to Malcolm McLean on Fri Jun 7 20:30:45 2024
    On 07/06/2024 20:09, Malcolm McLean wrote:
    On 07/06/2024 18:26, Kalevi Kolttonen wrote:
    Kenny McCormack <gazelle@shell.xmission.com> wrote:
    Why?

    I mean,  get it when someone wants to give away a large collection of
    mags,
    to clear space in their home and/or to do a good deed, but what s the
    point
    for just a single issue?

    Just out of curiosity, of course.

    I don't have a large collection, I only have two Dr.
    Dobbs magazines. The one I am giving way is the C issue,
    the other is an OS Issue from 1988 if I remember right.
    I could give away that one as well if someone wants it.

    I have no use for this magazine, but as it is a special
    issue related to C, I thought it is better to give it
    to someone still in the Usenet and wanting to have it.

    Of course the easiest solution for me would be to
    throw it into the trashcan, but the magazine does
    contain some interesting C history so someone might
    still want it for historical reasons.

    If nobody wants it, I'll just get rid of it. But I
    will wait for a week or so for responses.

    br,
    KK

    Now the C interpeter would be useful for my shell, as I could run C
    programs stored in the FileSystem files as source. Which is a nice idea.


    It would be. But I doubt that a DIY interpreter with source code you
    have to key in from the paages of a 1988 magazine will cut it!

    Massively better would be to use Tiny C, which although not an
    interpreter, can be use to directly run C programs from source.

    BTW I believe this is the article in question (at least you can copy and
    paste the code; you can no longer send off for the floppy!):

    https://www.drdobbs.com/cpp/building-your-own-c-interpreter/184408184

    It's by somebody called Schildt.

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  • From Ben Bacarisse@21:1/5 to bart on Sat Jun 8 00:03:59 2024
    bart <bc@freeuk.com> writes:

    BTW I believe this is the article in question (at least you can copy and paste the code; you can no longer send off for the floppy!):

    https://www.drdobbs.com/cpp/building-your-own-c-interpreter/184408184

    Looks very buggy. A casual review and I found a 2-character input file
    that seg faults. But then I can't get any input to actually work. To
    late to look further tonight.

    It's by somebody called Schildt.

    Ah. Prolific, but not renowned for taking care of details.

    --
    Ben.

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  • From bart@21:1/5 to Ben Bacarisse on Sat Jun 8 00:40:26 2024
    On 08/06/2024 00:03, Ben Bacarisse wrote:
    bart <bc@freeuk.com> writes:

    BTW I believe this is the article in question (at least you can copy and
    paste the code; you can no longer send off for the floppy!):

    https://www.drdobbs.com/cpp/building-your-own-c-interpreter/184408184

    Looks very buggy. A casual review and I found a 2-character input file
    that seg faults. But then I can't get any input to actually work. To
    late to look further tonight.

    I had to make some tweaks to get the thing to compile. But I couldn't
    get it to do anything either.

    However this is already what I'd anticipated. Overall it would be a toy
    even if it worked.

    It's about 1100 lines in all. By comparison, Pico C is 10,000 lines
    (including libraries).

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  • From Lawrence D'Oliveiro@21:1/5 to Ben Bacarisse on Sat Jun 8 01:02:35 2024
    On Sat, 08 Jun 2024 00:03:59 +0100, Ben Bacarisse wrote:

    bart <bc@freeuk.com> writes:

    It's by somebody called Schildt.

    Ah. Prolific, but not renowned for taking care of details.

    I have one book by him, bought many years ago, on C++.

    The cover proudly states “Covers the New International Standard for C+”.

    Yes, really.

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