Comment Re:152000 mph sounds a lot (Score 5, Funny) 67
What do you mean? An African or European solar system?
What do you mean? An African or European solar system?
These computers typically have a "subtract and conditionally branch" as their single instruction. SUBLEQ a, b, c, subtracts the contents of a from the contents of b, stores it at b, and jumps to c if the result is less than or equal to zero.
An unconditional branch has the next instruction as the destination. A move is a series of subtractions, involving a location that contains 0. Jump tables are a series of subtractions and conditional branches.
My friend Sphinx wrote a compiler he called C--, around that time. A subset of C, it didn't have any of the "fancy" C stuff, but it would output machine language the way you would translate C into assembly. info
(It was 3.5K RAM. Every bit counts!)
Speed-working! It's like speed-dating.
Exactly. Eventually, we'll discover that dark matter is some non-linearity that we just don't understand yet.
"The use of COBOL cripples the mind; its teaching should, therefore, be regarded as a criminal offense."
- Edsger Dijkstra
Motorcycles are grandfathered in. They wouldn't be allowed if they were invented today, any more than a highway-speed Segway is.
I suppose you support private roads, police and fire departments. People who want roads and safety can pay for them, but it shouldn't be paid for society as a whole.
I'd have fined the police department a further $1,000,000 for malicious wrongdoing, fraudulent charges, and gross misconduct, with that money going into the community.
The community (tax-payers) are the ones providing that money.
It was a scheduled rapid disassembly.
Yeah I haven't tried it yet, I wasn't sure how ready it was.
If you don't like it, don't use it. I started on 6502 and 68k assembly, before C, and it doesn't take long to prefer white space over braces. And yes you can compile and distribute, I did it for HP recently.
I just simultaneously multiply all primes up to N/2 together in my head, in parallel, and then pull up the one that results in N.
Contagious Cancer is my new band name.
Do not underestimate the value of print statements for debugging.