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

Joel Ewy jcewy at swbell.net
Wed Mar 24 22:12:49 EDT 2010 

Aaron Wolfe wrote:
> 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.
>
>   

Back in the early '90s I wrote a couple of utilities to make high-color 
images from DS-69 Digisector .PIX files using red, green, and blue 
filters (though the color splitter from my friend's Amiga digitizer 
worked better...).  They were fairly crude, but they worked.  I uploaded 
them onto Delphi (and more recently put them on RTSI).  I'm probably the 
only one who ever used them.

But who knows?  Things don't always happen just when we expect them to.  
Maybe somebody will still find them useful in the future.  Or maybe just 
the idea will inspire somebody do something else that is of value to 
others and maybe even me.

I grew a thick skin back in Junior High when people called me "Space 
Cadet" (and much, much worse) because I liked computers and read science 
fiction.  So I try not to read too much into the way people respond to 
me, or fail to respond.  I understand that, especially online, much of 
the time people are talking past each other.  And what interests me is 
likely to bore somebody else.  If I think there's any chance somebody 
else might be interested, whether now, or reading the archives in a 
future decade, I'll put it out there and try not to worry too much about 
what I think others may be thinking of it.

JCE

> 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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