old code

[honey the codewitch]

This one is complicated by multiple screen modes, each of which must be represented by a different concrete type with not much in the way of common base class. The screen mode function itself is a bit odd at first, being like

auto scmode = screen.mode<1,4>(); // native bit depth of 1,
// virtualized bit depth of 4 (for 8 virtual grayscale colors)

then you can draw to scmode. I don't like it but the way my graphics library is designed, pixels of different formats are different concrete types so like

gfx::gsc_pixel<1>; // mono pixel
gfx::gsc_pixel<8>; // 8 bit grayscale
gfx::rgb_pixel<16>; // 16 bit rgb
gfx::ycbcr_pixel<24>; // 24-bit Y'CbCr (used by jpeg)
gfx::rgba_pixel<32>; // 32-bit rgb pixel with an alpha channel

therefore different modes with different pixel formats must be different types. it has a number of advantages. this is just one area where i don't care for it.

To err is human. Fortune favors the monsters.

[PIEBALDconsult]

... aaaand I always forget to expect a hex...

[OriginalGriff]

Code matures slowly
Function forgotten, it dies
I wrote it to last

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[Super Lloyd]

The wheel of time always keep turning, there will always be old code! :-D ;P

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[Slacker007]

code is like cars, as soon as you drive it off the lot, its old.

[PIEBALDconsult]

" Ancient computers ranged in the long caves deep in the bowels of the planet tick away the dark millennia, and the ages hang heavy on their dusty databanks. They take the occasional potshot to relieve the monotony. " -- Slartibartfast

[jmaida]

1 bit, 4 bits, 1 byte, 2 bytes, 3 bytes, 4 bytes works with food (Pun intended) and bitmaps. Lots of bookkeeping, though. Unlike old soldiers, old code may never die and it may never fade away.

[englebart]

Code is like life that way. The second a routine is born, the fates have cut its skein to an exact length that you may never know even though it is YOU that weaves it into that tapestry known as a program.

[Gary R Wheeler]

"The ancient machine was but a pale shadow of its original glory. It had performed its duty, destroying the fifth planet in this system. Like all of its kind, it had not expected to survive what should have been its penultimate moment. An collection of debris accidently shielded it from dissolution, eventually casting it into orbit around the next planet inward. At some point in its long, long journey its intelligence was restored by the repair automata sufficiently that the mission became its primary concern yet again. Many systems no longer existed, or could not be repaired. Still, the mission must be performed. It searched, deep in the few uncorrupted records it still contained. There must be a method for completing the mission. In recent orbits small bits of metal debris had been expelled by the third planet. Some of the bits had even landed on the planet below, emitting weak electromagnetic signals. The ancient records were emphatic that this was one of the few warnings it would receive. The machine continued to watch, and wait."

Software Zen: delete this;

[honey the codewitch]

I remember this I think, but I can't place it - like something I read a long time ago.

To err is human. Fortune favors the monsters.

[Gary R Wheeler]

Probably because I've been reading science fiction for 50 years and can riff on most of the tropes pretty easily. If you've ever read the Bolo series of books originated by Keith Laumer, that's the tone I was looking for.

Software Zen: delete this;

[honey the codewitch]

Oh you wrote that? I did not expect that. You really had me going. It was bugging me all night. :laugh:

To err is human. Fortune favors the monsters.

[Wizard of Sleeves]

When I look back of my old code, I think to myself, "Holy broccoli, Batman! What great code. Did I actually write that? So eloquent and yet so powerful." To which I hear the reply, "Get away from computer, Granddad. You know it makes you sad."

Nothing succeeds like a budgie without teeth. To err is human, to arr is pirate.

[Don Hughes]

Although robust enough for general use, adventures into the esoteric periphery of the C shell may reveal unexpected quirks.

[Gary Wheeler]

Thanks :) .

Software Zen: delete this;

[MikeTheFid]

There are only two categories of code (like computers), prototype and obsolete.

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[Baxter P]

Be thankful you have a job :confused:

[Alan Pengelly]

All my code is old, I am still using Visual FoxPro :laugh: it's tiny (can run it on a pen drive!) and "does what is says on the tin."

[sasadler]

Yeah, I've been reading science fiction and fantasy books since the middle 60's. Still got the Laumer books (with about a thousand more) in boxes in the garage. I re-read the Bolo series (again) just a few years ago. Good stuff.

[Bob work]

Weeeeeell, poop. So I can't use an extra Audible credit to listen the whole thing? This comes under the popcorn-in-the-office rule - you can't just pop a bag, let the buttery aroma fill the place, and then leave for the day and take the popcorn with you. "Did you make enough for everybody?" "No Ma'am." "Then spit it out." :laugh: We also had a similarly unforgiving rule about microwaving fish dishes or leaving a gallon jar of kombucha to ferment in the break room. Honestly, I'd read/listen to the whole thing. I'll look up the author/series and see what's available in a travel-friendly format. Thanks! :-D

-Bob