On Monday 10 June 2019 01:00:58 pm John Hasler wrote: > Gene writes: > > All of that I'm well aware of Tomas. So yes "should" is a bit > > stronger sounding than I intended. But at my thinkers age, I'd like > > to think I have sense enough left to know my limits. So I ask. I > > am behind the curve of any modern language, even bash scripts I > > wrote 10 years ago can be a puzzle when they miss-fire until I've > > mentally stepped thru them several times. Its even personally > > embarrassing if when I find the why, and wonder WIH did I do it that > > way? > > Programming adage: Never make your code so clever that you can just > barely understand it yourself because *you* will have to understand it > in the future and you won't be this clever then. > Chuckle. Yessir. I used to do my coding in assembler, and later in C but that C was first edition, without the advanced bit twiddling since that target cpu's didn't have a barrel shifter. My targets started out with the rca 1802 in '78. Might have included the TI-9900 but the entry price was above my pay grade, so the majority of my code output ran on a 6809 or 6309 & still does. The 6x09's with PIC were a breath of fresh air, and cleared the way for a unix-like os called os9. When the 6309 was discovered I volunteered to rewrite a portion of that os to make it run faster. But all that was 40 to 30 years ago.
> On the other hand "What idiot designed this? Oh. It was me." is an > ordinary engineering experience. Head slappers, John. Feels so good when you stop :) > You can help the maintainers by running Unstable or Testing and filing > bug reports. Is there a URL to aid that upgrade? Or is it a start with a new drive & iso image? I'm in favor of operational continuity, if it can be had. Cheers, Gene Heskett -- "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) Genes Web page <http://geneslinuxbox.net:6309/gene>