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Questron

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    Comment #14267450

    If I'm as busy as OP (claims to be), then no way. EDIT: Think about marathon runners: they drink water and electrolytes. I'm pretty sure I can handle a workday fully concentrated w…

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    Comment #14267181

    It's: "Look! I'm busy! I'm important! I eat special food!"

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    Comment #14266672

    The "more and smaller meals" applies only to people with diseases (diabetes, obesity, etc.). People prone to hypoglycaemia are called diabetics with insulin overdose. Moreover, soy…

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    Comment #14266495

    Yes, but three times in 8 hours? I think it's more of an unhealthy habit to constantly eat. That's how you get diabetes.

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    Comment #14266380

    Weird. You need food during an eight hour shift?

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    Comment #14254257

    You can create closures in CBM BASIC V2 by referencing arrays or creating thunks as an extension. But that's beside the original point. Implementing is not a lot of work but since …

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    Comment #14249966

    Not really in machine language or even BASIC (see below).

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    Comment #14248751

    Yes, pointers to pointers etc. are difficult to grasp, but then again, so is passing functions as arguments. Also, information wasn't as readily available then as it is now. Anyway…

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    Comment #14248140

    Probably hadn't thought of passing a subroutine address to a routine in z80 machine language he was familiar with?

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    Comment #14236633

    Only the condition code was removed. Otherwise the parent is right and there really is an enormous amount of instructions. Fortunately less than intel, but still a lot.

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    Comment #14236430

    All the different instructions are listed in intel's instruction reference manuals. What is not very wise about this article is that he's using AT&T syntax. It adds one pointless l…

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    Comment #14231071

    There's also something else: Try shifting unsigned char x to right. >> 1 through 3 produce correct results, 4 changes the shift to some optimization too early, and the >> 5 the cor…