From owner-freebsd-config Mon Jun 9 03:53:32 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id DAA16729 for config-outgoing; Mon, 9 Jun 1997 03:53:32 -0700 (PDT) Received: from genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au (genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au [129.127.96.120]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id DAA16721 for ; Mon, 9 Jun 1997 03:53:29 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from msmith@localhost) by genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au (8.8.5/8.7.3) id UAA27275; Mon, 9 Jun 1997 20:23:15 +0930 (CST) From: Michael Smith Message-Id: <199706091053.UAA27275@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> Subject: Re: Startup userconfig parsing In-Reply-To: <5423.865853137@time.cdrom.com> from "Jordan K. Hubbard" at "Jun 9, 97 03:45:37 am" To: jkh@time.cdrom.com (Jordan K. Hubbard) Date: Mon, 9 Jun 1997 20:23:14 +0930 (CST) Cc: msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au, bde@zeta.org.au, config@freebsd.org X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL28 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-config@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Jordan K. Hubbard stands accused of saying: > > Booger. Aigh! I know what we could use, and you will all kill me for it. > > > > Chipmunk Basic. > > I think we'll all kill you for that. :-) Heh. What's wrong with a cut-down HP Basic clone? > Seriously, I'm not sure if I'm quite ready to go that far over the > edge. A simple mini-forth with an absolutely minescule footprint > seems more desireable to me than basic. How about hacking the > crapola out of atlast? You read my mind. It has some wacko arithmetic problems, and the guy must be allergic to ANSI C and Unix systems in general (can you _really_ write to the data segment under SunOS?), but it does seem to be the best bet. Judgement call : tidy as little as necessary, or beat the crap out of it and ansify, prototypeify, etc? > Jordan -- ]] Mike Smith, Software Engineer msmith@gsoft.com.au [[ ]] Genesis Software genesis@gsoft.com.au [[ ]] High-speed data acquisition and (GSM mobile) 0411-222-496 [[ ]] realtime instrument control. (ph) +61-8-8267-3493 [[ ]] Unix hardware collector. "Where are your PEZ?" The Tick [[