[Coco] "C" Compiling Was: New CoCo site for programmers

[Bob Devries]

Hi Stephen,

I agree with you completely regarding the lack of any kind of description on 
today's file repositories. To counteract that, I have in the past created a 
*.readme file to upload along with my files, which gives a short description 
of the file's contents and usage. I usually also post a message here to call 
people's attention to the new file uploads.

I am no longer disconcerted regarding the lack of comments about my uploads. 
Sure, most of my programming efforts have been trivial (and probably not 
very good.... I'm self-taught), but at least *I* enjoy creating them, and 
usually they serve a useful purpose to me. Sometimes my creations are merely 
"toys" created for fun. My last effort was certainly like that.

My 2c.

Regards, Bob Devries
Soldier's 2, Las Pinas Cirt, Philippines.

--
Besides a mathematical inclination, an exceptionally good mastery of one's 
native tongue is the most vital asset of a competent programmer.

Edsger W.Dijkstra, 18 June 1975

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Stephen H. Fischer" <SFischer1 at Mindspring.com>
To: "CoCoList for Color Computer Enthusiasts" <coco at maltedmedia.com>
Sent: Thursday, March 25, 2010 8:01 AM
Subject: [Coco] "C" Compiling Was: New CoCo site for programmers


> Hi,
>
> Gene, please do not take this badly, we all are responsible.
>
> When I signed on to Delphi at 300 baud it was a new world. I still have 
> the
> transcript of that session and many others. That's how part of what I will
> be describing can be helped.
>
> The files offered had one line descriptions and long descriptions, some
> quite long. That was back in the 1980s.
>
> Now today, well into the Twenty-first Century, on RTSI and perhaps your 
> site,
> we have ...... *filenames only* . ................
>
> I consider this a great step back.
>
> ------------------------------- 
>
> What I hoped that you would be providing was not the files but a 
> description
> of the compiling process for "C" identifying the various programs in the
> process and noting why you chose them.
>
> I may be able to recognize which programs are used and figure out how to 
> use
> them but some other interested persons may not be able to.
>
> I do not know if it still would be useful but I had a system that after
> editing part of "Colorful SLED" or other program under development, I just
> invoked a shell script and all the rest was automated using several shell
> scripts and "make" which is missing from your site.
>
> I expect that I would learn new things and others would also. Your words I
> would suggest be offered to the new Webmaster to be built into a web page
> with "Color", diagrams and pictures.
>
> ------------------------------------------------- 
>
> To balance out the age of pictures on the Internet, I offer this one:
>
> http://www.avsforum.com/avs-vb/showthread.php?p=18244428#post18244428
>
> SHF
>
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Gene Heskett" <gene.heskett at verizon.net>
> To: "CoCoList for Color Computer Enthusiasts" <coco at maltedmedia.com>
> Sent: Tuesday, March 23, 2010 11:15 PM
> Subject: Re: [Coco] New CoCo site for programmers
>
>
>> On Wednesday 24 March 2010, Stephen H. Fischer wrote:
>>>Hi,
>>>
>>>Did you not say that you were going to add to your page the list of "C"
>>>compiler utilities?
>>>
>> I can do better than that, I can put the ones I have up on my page, some
>> of
>> which may even be there, I added another link a week or so back to 
>> another
>> directory where I'd put some of my utility's and such.
>>
>> Check at <http://gene.homelinux.net:85/gene/Genes-os9-stf>
>>
>> I just looked, looks like most of it is there, ping me if anything you
>> know
>> about is missing.
>>
>>>SHF
>
>
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