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Tuesday, 18th of July 2017, 16:02:13 UTC
20:46:24
knusbaum
jackdaniel: if you're around, I finally got around to donating that graph thingy.
3:20:57
beach
Good morning everyone!
3:21:30
beach
Hey nyef. What's new?
3:23:23
nyef
More heat than I like. Possible barbecue tomorrow night. Somewhat regretting having written the core of an 8051 disassembler in C.
3:24:07
loke
nyef: As opposed to FORTRAN?
3:24:32
beach
It's the "C" part you regret, I suppose?
3:26:00
nyef
I'm at the point where I need to graft a symbol table onto it, and depending on how things go after that I might want to start doing some automatic analysis stuff.
3:26:35
nyef
But even just loading the symbol table is a parsing job, and therefore a pain.
3:26:40
beach
Ouch! Yes, I understand the regrets.
3:27:47
nyef
And if I *am* going to rewrite in another language, the sooner I do so the better overall.
3:49:51
beach
How come you chose C in the first place?
3:56:16
nyef
It's an easy default for some things.
3:59:11
nyef
The notation for working with signed and unsigned modular arithmetic around 8, 16, 32, and 64 bit fields is convenient.
3:59:55
nyef
Oddly enough, it was a speed consideration: How quickly can I get a most basic implementation going?
4:02:00
nyef
The initial prototype was easy enough to do. But things bog down once actually trying to do something slightly complex.
Wednesday, 19th of July 2017, 4:02:13 UTC