Oh Christ, I'm doomed....

I generally dislike the use of short, un-descriptive variable names in
programs.

The code I'm working on has just such a failing. And I've just found one
called "crn".

<deletes source code>

 

Ha - A whole three characters! These fancy new pooters with lashings of
RAM have spoiled you youngsters.

In any case it's obviously 'Counts Random Numbers'.


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"for x = 1 to 100" [1]

I'm a big fan of Hungarian Notation, myself.

some twat will have it backed up...

[1] I think I mentioned this before, but I once had to amend/debug
some (DIBOL 83!!) code written by a bloke by the name of Dominic.

Two related fragments remain with me for ever:


SKIPPYTHEBUSHKANGAROO = TRUE

FOR DOM FROM 1 THRU 2352
IF DOM = 1234 AND SKIPPYTHEBUSHKANGAROO IS TRUE ; A
TRUE FRIEND!
GOSUB DOM

.... (a few hundred lines later)

SUBROUTINE DOM
; DOM IS VERY COOL
RETURN

 

Using the patented Mavis Beacon "Hunt&Peck" Technique, Pete Fisher

I wrote my last memory segmented program about thirty years ago.

I do not miss it.

 

You see what happens when you use constantly rong nomenclature?

 

yes.

 

We had one a while back from a contractor:


int iFlash; // Aaa-aahh!

for (i=0; i< MAX; i++)
{
iFlash = 0; // The saviour of the universe!
}

etc.

 

Not 'Clueless Rambling Numpty' ?

 

Somewhere there's some source code of mine that has:

double gin_and_tonic = 0.0;


Jeez, I crack me up sometimes.

 

when I used to write 6502 machine code[1], I would try and write
opcode sequences that functioned, but also so that the ASCII values of
the codes spelled out things like "bum" and "poo". etc.

Hey, I was 14 - what's your excuse?

[1] I mean, really - I was nerdy enough to be able to write actual
machine code[2] rather than some poof's wishy-washy language like
assembly.
[2] could do Z80 too, but 6502 was my favourite.

 

BBC micro/Acorn Electron?

Or Nascom (I guess for Z80).

 

You've just reminded me of the physics lesson I had when I was about 12
using some kind of an electronic counter thing with a 7-segment display.
The worksheet featured the question "What letters can the display show?
Can you spell out any words with these letters?"

Walked right into that one we did.

 

Acorn *Atom*

nope - Sinclair ZX81, then the Speccy.

 

You might like this: http://www.visual6502.org/

 

Hmm... should have remembered the sinclair devices. And the Atom, well
I vaguely remember it. Problem is every memory from 1980 is pretty
vague.

 

they were rubbish, but hugely popular. Until the horrible
collaboration with ICL.

oh, mine too.

 

la la la la - I'm not listening.

 

into those surely.

 

My first machine-code-level programming was on a mate's ZX spectrum,
created by poking op-codes into RAM, based largely on guesses on what
they did exactl.y. The Spectrum manual had a list of the opcode
mnemonics, IIRC, which was how I figured it out.

The first program that actually ran, filled the screen with vertical
blue & white stripes in an eyeblink, though that's *all* it did. I was
very chuffed.

Lost interest after that; mentally exhausted.

 

What about the QL?

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