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Re: Epson printing problems? [message #393765 is a reply to message #392955] Sun, 26 April 2020 07:07 Go to previous message
Bernd Felsche is currently offline  Bernd Felsche
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Charlie Gibbs <cgibbs@kltpzyxm.invalid> wrote:
> On 2020-04-10, Scott Lurndal <scott@slp53.sl.home> wrote:
>> Gareth Evans <headstone255@yahoo.com> writes:
>>> On 10/04/2020 19:42, Scott Lurndal wrote:

>>>> A C source file of 4000 lines might have one or two escaped characters
>>>> in it (or fewer, or more, but it's irrelevent to using CRLF as a
>>>> line delimiter). One or two extra backslash instead of 4000 useless
>>>> carriage returns.
>>>
>>> 4000 lines ???? That's 50 pages and a file of that size could
>>> only have been produced by a computing incompetentismo.

[...]

>> We have well over two millions lines of C/C++ code, and several files are
>> in the 2 to 4 thousand line range, even without counting header files that
>> are generated. And there is no "computing incompetentismo" involved.

> A couple of my source files have grown to over 10,000 lines.
> Not by design, but changing requirements, plus a compiler that
> can handle it. A single source file makes the makefile smaller.

> Small modules are a sign of a short attention span. :-)

Or potential re-abusability. ;-)

I used makefiles to split large code that would otherwise have taken
half an hour to recompile, every time that there was a code change.
The split allowed a change to be tested within a minute or two. i.e.
much less time sitting around pretending to be busy. (ca. 1985)

Then, when I was happy with the lot, I'd "make test" and it'd use
SCCS to rebuild with all the current modules and embed version
numbers of each. Then a "make RELEASE" would record the current
module versions into a RELEASE file so that all releases could be
recreated from the one code base. (Very important as this was
Engineering structural analysis code for the design of large metal
structures.)

Ask me how many times I've re-assigned record and field separators
in an effort to minimise code.
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