| Re: Reinventing My Own Wheel: Et Tu? |
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Group: comp.os.os9 · Group Profile
Author: Mike G.Mike G. Date: Mar 27, 2008 19:41
> Ken Tilton optonline.net> writes:>> Ever reinvent your own wheel cuz ya did it then used it so rarely you
>> forgot it? Or similarly ended up poking around your utils code and
>> discovered functions written in the heat of a "this will be useful"
>> moment but then got forgotten?
I used to do this with C a great deal. Now that I use Lisp a lot more,
I find that I write much less code to lose. I've met C and Scheme
programmers who shrug off CL's SORT. I've lost or forgotten about
application-specific sort routines, and implementations of various
data structures in C. In Lisp, I always have SORT, and since my
default Lisp world contains a few different packages I've written for
myself, if I forget about them, I suppose I'll be able to find them
much easier with apropos.
Hmmm.. maybe I should write an fapropos / fdescribe which thrash up a
directory tree of Lisp source giving you function names, arguments and
docs along with the path to the file to load.
That will be useful ;)
> Thanksfully, nowadays we've got google, and sometimes, I find my own
> old code with google, if I took the precaution to publish it, that is.
As a kid, I had a Tandy Color Computer, affectionately known as a
CoCo. I had a few models of them, peaking with my CoCo 3 which sported
512k of RAM and 2 720k floppy drives. Small, but it did have a pre-
emptive multitasking OS (OS-9 on the Motorola 6809). Awesome machine.
I digress.. anyhow, awhile back I downloaded an emulator for that old
machine and downloaded some disk images and found code that I wrote
when I was first learning programming with structured BASIC. It felt
like lightning to see all that old code again. Very surreal.
Whoever salvaged that code from the old archives of Compuserve and
Delphi - if you happen to read this - thank you :) hmm.. time for my
first cross-post.
-M
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