Author: Robert Hyatt
Date: 21:05:04 02/28/04
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On February 28, 2004 at 06:38:10, Rolf Tueschen wrote: >On February 27, 2004 at 22:54:07, Robert Hyatt wrote: > >>On February 27, 2004 at 14:19:39, Vincent Diepeveen wrote: >> >>>In this posting mine i didn't mean you Bob, if so i would for sure have >>>mentionned it :) >>> >>>Exceptions proof the general rule :) >>> >>>I doubt though that you have written more code than i have, despite you being >>>longer around in programming life. >>> >>>Crafty would have its own interface otherwise, to just mention one point :) >> >> >>Poor logic. I've written multiple complete chess programs. At least five in >>the blitz/cray blitz family, plus crafty. >> >>But how many assemblers and compilers have you written? I've written assemblers >>for the IBM /360, the xerox sigma 9, the HP 2100a (two here, assembler and >>microcode assembler as well), two basic interpreters, a major part of a cobol >>compiler for an old TI supercomputer (ASC). A complete hardware emulator for >>the xerox sigma 9 so I could boot the operating system as a user, to test >>changes without taking the real machine down. Those represent a million lines >>of code at a minimum. Should I go on? I wrote about 160K lines of assembly for >>the xerox operating system to add support for a separate communcations processor >>offloading all the terminal interrupts to a second processor. I wrote about >>150K lines of assembly for the IBM/360 system we used to make it far faster to >>run student programs. >> >>Perhaps you should re-think your comparison? >> >>Just because I chose to not write a GUI doesn't mean I haven't written a lot of >>other things. I just choose to avoid re-inventing the wheel when I can avoid >>it, and use xboard which works just fine for my requirements. If I wanted to >>write a GUI, I would, I have done lots of x-windows program development. The >>key is "if I wanted to" which I don't... > > >I know that I can be extremely cruel at times but if it's necessary I still have >my scalpel. If I were to direct the new Hannibal Lecter I would want to see that >he's spooning some brain on someone who's alive and awake and who later >confirmed that it didn't hurt a bit. Of course that "someone" must be Vincent. >Not that you could be as cruel as me, but Bob, could you refer to the age you >had when you had already programmed almost all that code you were talking about? >I think the surgeon must do his job _properly_. Er, Vince is now some 36 or >such. Yammy. > Sure. The assemblers and compilers and operating system stuff were all done prior to 1985. Which was prior to my 37th birthday, if my math is correct. (DOB 1948). All of the chess programs excepting the last CB version and Crafty were also done by then. So well beyond 1M lines of code prior to that point. >Next candidate is Amir. We should implement, sorry, implantate something about >the difference between active professors and globetrotters. Gulliver's Travels >is a must read for all the candidates of course. > >;) > >Rolf
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