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Source: usenet: utastro!nather, May 21, 1983.
A recent article devoted to the macho side of programming made the bald and unvarnished statement:
Real Programmers write in Fortran. [ see Real Programmers Don’t Use Pascal ]
Maybe they do now, in this decadent era of Lite beer, hand calculators and “user-friendly” software but back in the Good Old Days, when the term “software” sounded funny and Real Computers were made out of drums and vacuum tubes, Real Programmers wrote in machine code. Not Fortran. Not RATFOR. Not, even, assembly language. Machine Code. Raw, unadorned, inscrutable hexadecimal numbers. Directly.
The Compiled Website project is the engine running https://spiralofhope.com/.
I’ve made some astounding progress in recent days, and it’s now at the point where I can create and edit documents as I wish. The only critical feature I’m missing is the creation of lists of mixed-type; both ordered and unordered.
I took some time and cleaned up my TL;DR introduction page. In particular I’ve written my compiled website reasoning.
The compiled website project is pretty much the death knell for this blog. Useful stuff that’s stuck here is now in line to be imported into spiralofhope.com.
But before that happens, I think I’ll implement a site RSS feed so that people can stay up-to-date as they wish, and I can create temporal posts like blog entries.
Working with regular expressions while listening to dance music.
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JDownloader is a download helper. It helps bypass various wait screens like the Firefox SkipScreen add-on, probably breaking terms of use and all that goodness.
Unfortunately, it’s Java.
My TODO list is big. More annoyingly, it’s not really one TODO list. I have notes scattered throughout my computer: in text files; in a local knowledgebase; in program source.. and in this case in the rc.xml configuration file for Openbox.
So I’ve been working on my Compiled Website, and doing some more complex stuff like working with blocks of text to turn them into lists or <pre> blocks. Then I decided to be self-abusing and rewrite some code that dealt with HTMLizing plain text URLs. Hey, i can do that with a regular expression! Oh hell..
Regular expressions are a nightmare at best. The problem is ever-worsened the longer the expression needs to become.
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When it comes to all the fancy software tools out there, I’m finding myself becoming more and more luddite.
I’ve learned through reading and discussion many ways on how to handle data. It’s something I’m always interested in. However, the one thing that I’ve learned – and sometimes the hard way – is that no matter how awesome your handling of your data it all falls to pieces when your tools break.
