On Aug 5, 2007, at 14:58 , Alec Mihailovs wrote:
> > From: "Justin C. Walker" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >> Tthere are large mounds of open source lying around for anyone to >> inspect. The unix kernel is one such (nowadays). Take a look :-} > > Justin, do you have a link? I just searched Google for Unix kernel > sources > and found the Unix V7 tour at http://www.tamacom.com/tour/kernel/ > unix/ . > > I looked at the main and few other files - the comments are very > rare and > mostly serve as "section titles". It is as far from literate > programming as > it can be. The code seems to be very clean though and understandable. By "the unix kernel", I meant any of the freely-available versions, like the BSDs. For example, look at the IP protocol code in the FreeBSD kernel: <http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/cvsweb.cgi/src/sys/netinet> say, ip_input.c. Beauty, as always, is in my eye :-} FWIW, yes, by comparision, the early unix kernel code, say V5, V6, and even V7, was pretty clean and understandable. Remember that this was code crafted mostly by two people, not a Hoard :--} Justin -- Justin C. Walker, Curmudgeon-At-Large Director Institute for the Enhancement of the Director's Income -------- "Weaseling out of things is what separates us from the animals. Well, except the weasel." - Homer J Simpson -------- --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ To post to this group, send email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel URLs: http://sage.scipy.org/sage/ and http://modular.math.washington.edu/sage/ -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
