Re: Why?

On 07/06/2024 20:09, Malcolm McLean wrote:

On 07/06/2024 18:26, Kalevi Kolttonen wrote:

Kenny McCormack <gazelle@shell.xmission.com> wrote:

Why?
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I mean,  get it when someone wants to give away a large collection of mags,
to clear space in their home and/or to do a good deed, but what s the point
for just a single issue?
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Just out of curiosity, of course.

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I don't have a large collection, I only have two Dr.
Dobbs magazines. The one I am giving way is the C issue,
the other is an OS Issue from 1988 if I remember right.
I could give away that one as well if someone wants it.
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I have no use for this magazine, but as it is a special
issue related to C, I thought it is better to give it
to someone still in the Usenet and wanting to have it.
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Of course the easiest solution for me would be to
throw it into the trashcan, but the magazine does
contain some interesting C history so someone might
still want it for historical reasons.
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If nobody wants it, I'll just get rid of it. But I
will wait for a week or so for responses.
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br,
KK

 Now the C interpeter would be useful for my shell, as I could run C programs stored in the FileSystem files as source. Which is a nice idea.
 

It would be. But I doubt that a DIY interpreter with source code you have to key in from the paages of a 1988 magazine will cut it!
Massively better would be to use Tiny C, which although not an interpreter, can be use to directly run C programs from source.
BTW I believe this is the article in question (at least you can copy and paste the code; you can no longer send off for the floppy!):
https://www.drdobbs.com/cpp/building-your-own-c-interpreter/184408184
It's by somebody called Schildt.