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From: keithe@tekgvs.UUCP (Keith Ericson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Pattern Matching & documentation, & flame to C-A
Message-ID: <1962@tekgvs.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 19-Dec-86 12:34:24 EST
Article-I.D.: tekgvs.1962
Posted: Fri Dec 19 12:34:24 1986
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In article <1135@cbmvax.cbmvax.cbm.UUCP> carolyn@cbmvax.UUCP (Carolyn Scheppner) writes:
>In article <8612152348.AA29410@cory.Berkeley.EDU> dillon@CORY.BERKELEY.EDU (Matt Dillon) writes:
>>
>>	NOW LOOK C-A, I'VE ENOUGH OF THIS SH#$%%T.  WILL YOU *PLEASE* POST
>>DOCUMENTATION ON BCPL STARTUP...
>>						-Matt
>
>   I've had more than enough of your SCREAMING and CURSING.  
>
>   You act like we're hoarding some Magic Document that would endow the
>reader with Instant Knowledge of the Glorious Inner Secrets of AmigaDOS. 

Well, maybe not a "reader" in general, but Matt seems to be a cut above the
average Amiga user!

>
>   Well Matt, there is no magic document.  I wish there was.

Somebody screwed up the contract with the AmigaDos writers :-)

>   What we have is the AmigaDOS source code.

Oh boy oh boy oh boy. I'm glad somebody has it!

>
>   BCPL is a bit like C, and it is possible to decipher and even
>make changes to localized portions of the code.  But when you
>start to trace code that interfaces with the private global functions
>via run-time linkin...
>
>   So, you can either pay Tim King to reveal the inner secrets, 

(see comment on contracts, above)

>or wait until someone here has time to decipher a very large and
>very complex program that jumps all over the place.

sounds like a good job for a computer...

>carolyn

Carolyn - do you really get paid to take all this abuse? CBM probably
doesn't realize the bargain they're getting.

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