Re: Computing chops

On Thu, 27 Mar 2025 23:23:37 -0400, DFS <nospam@dfs.com> wrote in
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On 3/27/2025 10:40 PM, vallor wrote:
 
 

Meanwhile:  what was the last large software project either of you
compiled?
 
ObLinux:
 
For me, it was Pan, preceded by a few minutes by Linux 6.14.
 
(ng snecked)

 
 
What's the largest program you ever wrote, by LOC?

Beats the snot out of me.

It was certainly in perl, though, so you can start laughing now...

One of the largest C programs I ever wrote was a curses
tool that allowed students to sign up for accounts on
our (then) new student-access Linux host.  (Think: _lots_
of input validation.)  That was in 1992.

Students would fill out the form, then I'd run the data through
awk to format it for input on the HP3000 to verify the entries against
student records.  Then I'd take the results and mass-add all the students.
I think perl4 was involved in there somewhere.

My most recent "big" C project was to generate MD5 hashes of ASCII
representations of the entire IPv4 address space (except
for multicast addresses).  There was also a tool to do a lookup
from the hashes and give the IP address.  (If you want to know what
that was for, I'll tell you.)  That was a while ago though -- lately
I haven't been doing much, but there's a couple of C programs on my
github, which are just screwing around.  Example:

https://github.com/vallor/subfactorial

(That was a Farley Fud "challenge", if you remember.)

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