Re: Command line parsing and MACRO-20

From	Rich Alderson <news@alderson.users.panix.com>
Newsgroups	alt.sys.pdp10
Subject	Re: Command line parsing and MACRO-20
Date	2026-08-30 22:18 -0400
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jayjwa <jayjwa@atr2.ath.cx.invalid> writes:

> Don't you want to fix the C code and understand it too?  So much is written
> in C.  I'll learn PDP-10 assembly and you learn C.  Deal?  Be warned though,
> C pointers are actually worse than assembly ones IMNSHO.

I can read C code well enough to understand what it is doing without needing to
know things like argc/argv.  I made an FTP stub program written in "Dynamic C"
for the Rabbit work because I understood the equivalent Macro-20 code and knew
what was missing or simply done wrong.

But I get paid to write Macro-20.  I don't get paid to write C, or I might be
interested.  No one is looking for 75 year old C programmers...

-- 
Rich Alderson					  news@alderson.users.panix.com
      Audendum est, et veritas investiganda; quam etiamsi non assequamur,
	  omnino tamen proprius, quam nunc sumus, ad eam perveniemus.
									--Galen

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Command line parsing and MACRO-20 jayjwa <jayjwa@atr2.ath.cx.invalid> - 2026-08-28 14:08 -0400
  Re: Command line parsing and MACRO-20 scott@slp53.sl.home (Scott Lurndal) - 2026-08-28 18:35 +0000
    Re: Command line parsing and MACRO-20 jayjwa <jayjwa@atr2.ath.cx.invalid> - 2026-08-29 12:19 -0400
      Re: Command line parsing and MACRO-20 Rich Alderson <news@alderson.users.panix.com> - 2026-08-29 17:51 -0400
  Re: Command line parsing and MACRO-20 Rich Alderson <news@alderson.users.panix.com> - 2026-08-28 20:59 -0400
    Re: Command line parsing and MACRO-20 jayjwa <jayjwa@atr2.ath.cx.invalid> - 2026-08-29 12:37 -0400
      Re: Command line parsing and MACRO-20 Rich Alderson <news@alderson.users.panix.com> - 2026-08-29 18:04 -0400
        Re: Command line parsing and MACRO-20 jayjwa <jayjwa@atr2.ath.cx.invalid> - 2026-08-30 11:38 -0400
          Re: Command line parsing and MACRO-20 Rich Alderson <news@alderson.users.panix.com> - 2026-08-30 22:18 -0400

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