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

[Aaron Wolfe]

On Wed, Mar 24, 2010 at 8:44 PM, Bob Devries <devries.bob at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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.
>

I know this feeling too, and it's not unique to the CoCo community.
I've done work on some open source projects that I thought were really
great only to find that no one else seemed to care.

A wise man (who participates here :) once told me that the only good
reason to do development on the CoCo is the pleasure of seeing your
own code run.   At first, I honestly didn't like this statement.
However, after some time, and many lines of code,  I've realized it is
quite accurate and not negative at all.  It *is* a great pleasure to
design a system and see it work, and the CoCo provides a great
environment for experimentation.  Trying to take anything more from
the CoCo will probably result in a less than satisfying experience.

I like to see the excited announcements from everyone working on their
projects (and I hope I haven't bothered the list with my own). I think
it's really great to hear about people working on CoCo stuff.   Keep
them coming! :)

-Aaron

My $0.02 :)

> 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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