13 Nov
2022
13 Nov
'22
12:02 a.m.
I spotted this when glancing through a book catalogue; well, with a title
like that how could I miss it?
Subtitled "How 26 Lines of Code Changed the World", edited by Torie Bosch
and illustrated by Kelly Chudler (can't say that I've heard of them).
Summary:
``Programming is behind so much of life today, and this book draws together
a group of distinguished thinkers and technologists to reveal the
stories and people behind the computer coding that shapes our
world. From how university's [sic] databases were set up to
recognise only two genders to the first computer worm and the
first pop-up ad, the diverse topics reveal the consequences of
historical decisions and their long-lasting, profound implications.
Pb $34.99''
Lines of code, eh? :-)
Abbey's Bookshop: www.abbeys.com.au
Disclaimer: I have no connection with them, but I'll likely buy it.
-- Dave
13 Nov
13 Nov
12:25 a.m.
Maybe it is just me, but I don't recognize any of the contributors listed
either at the bottom
On Sat, Nov 12, 2022, 7:20 PM Dave Horsfall <dave(a)horsfall.org> wrote:
I spotted this when glancing through a book catalogue;
well, with a title
like that how could I miss it?
Subtitled "How 26 Lines of Code Changed the World", edited by Torie Bosch
and illustrated by Kelly Chudler (can't say that I've heard of them).
Summary:
``Programming is behind so much of life today, and this book draws together
a group of distinguished thinkers and technologists to reveal the
stories and people behind the computer coding that shapes our
world. From how university's [sic] databases were set up to
recognise only two genders to the first computer worm and the
first pop-up ad, the diverse topics reveal the consequences of
historical decisions and their long-lasting, profound implications.
Pb $34.99''
Lines of code, eh? :-)
Abbey's Bookshop: www.abbeys.com.au
Disclaimer: I have no connection with them, but I'll likely buy it.
-- Dave
1:12 a.m.
I find it fascinating how, just a few years after the difficulty of stack
switching required a commented challenge in the Unix source, we were using
setjmp and longjmp to do this with no fuss at all. Once the problem is
solved, the solution can simplify dramatically.
See https://github.com/plan9foundation/plan9/blob/main/sys/src/9/port/proc.c
for instance - almost all of sched is bookkeeping and a comment about
locks. The little burst at the bottom, starting around line 163, that does
the work is so compact. (setlabel and gotolabel are setjmp and longjmp.)
Insight.
-rob
On Sun, Nov 13, 2022 at 11:26 AM Kenneth Goodwin <kennethgoodwin56(a)gmail.com>
wrote:
Maybe it is just me, but I don't recognize any of
the contributors listed
either at the bottom
On Sat, Nov 12, 2022, 7:20 PM Dave Horsfall <dave(a)horsfall.org> wrote:
I spotted this when glancing through a book
catalogue; well, with a title
like that how could I miss it?
Subtitled "How 26 Lines of Code Changed the World", edited by Torie Bosch
and illustrated by Kelly Chudler (can't say that I've heard of them).
Summary:
``Programming is behind so much of life today, and this book draws
together
a group of distinguished thinkers and technologists to reveal the
stories and people behind the computer coding that shapes our
world. From how university's [sic] databases were set up to
recognise only two genders to the first computer worm and the
first pop-up ad, the diverse topics reveal the consequences of
historical decisions and their long-lasting, profound implications.
Pb $34.99''
Lines of code, eh? :-)
Abbey's Bookshop: www.abbeys.com.au
Disclaimer: I have no connection with them, but I'll likely buy it.
-- Dave
1:52 a.m.
On Sun, Nov 13, 2022 at 12:12:32PM +1100, Rob Pike wrote:
See
https://github.com/plan9foundation/plan9/blob/main/sys/src/9/port/proc.c
for instance - almost all of sched is bookkeeping and a comment about
locks. The little burst at the bottom, starting around line 163, that does
the work is so compact. (setlabel and gotolabel are setjmp and longjmp.)
This reminds me of code I did for Udi Manber as a grad (or undergrad)
student. He wanted a user space threads library so I wrote one.
It's where I learned how to write swtch() where you enter as one thread
and exit as another one. 99% of the code was C that did all the stuff
you could do in C and then a small amount of assembler that did the flip.
I had heard that swtch() was hard but it really isn't that bad.
The assembler makes you learn that stuff but you need to know that stuff
anyway. I do agree with people who say you aren't a kernel engineer if
you haven't written, or at least understood, that code.
1:12 a.m.
On 2022-11-12 19:02, Dave Horsfall wrote:
I spotted this when glancing through a book catalogue;
well, with a title
like that how could I miss it?
Subtitled "How 26 Lines of Code Changed the World", edited by Torie Bosch
and illustrated by Kelly Chudler (can't say that I've heard of them).
Summary:
``Programming is behind so much of life today, and this book draws together
a group of distinguished thinkers and technologists to reveal the
stories and people behind the computer coding that shapes our
world. From how university's [sic] databases were set up to
recognise only two genders to the first computer worm and the
first pop-up ad, the diverse topics reveal the consequences of
historical decisions and their long-lasting, profound implications.
Pb $34.99''
Lines of code, eh? :-)
Abbey's Bookshop: www.abbeys.com.au
Disclaimer: I have no connection with them, but I'll likely buy it.
-- Dave
Does subscribe to COFF anymore? I mentioned this a few weeks ago on
COFF (https://minnie.tuhs.org/pipermail/coff/2022-October/001315.html)
with only one reply.
N.
9:58 p.m.
On Sat, 12 Nov 2022, Stuff Received wrote:
Does subscribe to COFF anymore? I mentioned this a
few weeks ago on
COFF (https://minnie.tuhs.org/pipermail/coff/2022-October/001315.html)
with only one reply.
Haven't seen anything from COFF for some weeks now; anyway I figured that
is was more "historical Unix" than "old geezer" stuff, hence TUHS.
-- Dave
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