Hi David, An attempt at humour? No, not intentionally! haha But anything I can do that can make people laugh is good in my books.
It’s a somewhat serious ‘rough sketch’ of a working blockchain (at least I think it’s working) and an example of how such a system would work; a springboard. I got a bit creative with the addition of a Scheme interpreter in an attempt to make the system ‘useful’ rather than ‘wasteful’. It’s incomplete, i know that at this point, but I thought I would share. Writing explanatory blockchains is pretty hot right now. I hope this one is simple (and correct!) enough to show the concepts in a familiar language. — Burton Samograd > On Dec 18, 2017, at 4:00 PM, David McClain <d...@refined-audiometrics.com> > wrote: > > Well, I thought, after delving deeper into the code, that it might be some > kind of sophisticated programmer humor, making a comment about the vast > amount of CPU cycles devoted to nonsensical computing or some such… > > - DM > > >> On Dec 18, 2017, at 15:54, Pascal Bourguignon <p...@informatimago.com >> <mailto:p...@informatimago.com>> wrote: >> >> >> >>> On 18 Dec 2017, at 23:31, David McClain <d...@refined-audiometrics.com >>> <mailto:d...@refined-audiometrics.com>> wrote: >>> >>> umm… was this supposed to be some kind of joke? I’ll bite... I don’t get >>> it. I was actually hoping to learn something here... >>> >>> But the code does look rather peculiar on close inspection. Why the use of >>> macros for pushing new transaction blocks? And the conversions to octet >>> vectors may work for strings, but not in general for arbitrary integer or >>> float values… >>> >>> If it is supposed to be a joke, I’ll chuckle and just chuck the code… >> >> I guess not: >> https://dev.to/damcosset/trying-to-understand-blockchain-by-making-one-ce4 >> <https://dev.to/damcosset/trying-to-understand-blockchain-by-making-one-ce4> >> It’s like, everybody will be busy implementing blockchains. It’s the new >> fizz-buzz… >> >> >> >> -- >> __Pascal J. Bourguignon__ >> >> >> >
