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Turbo Pascal for DOS. Simple, compact, quick, well documented, reasonably easy to learn, and not too expensive. I think that bloat is the enemy of beauty, so we're probably likely to find beauty in software that does a few things well.
- Things That Turbo Pascal is Smaller Than: http://prog21.dadgum.com/116.html
- A Personal History of Compilation Speed, Part 2: http://prog21.dadgum.com/47.html
I found this a while ago on hackernews: https://github.com/Hypsurus/skod Amazing source.
https://github.com/Hypsurus/skod/blob/master/src/skod.c#L290
Also, at least some functions should be static.
_cla means "command line arguments", not obvious.
Useless comments: https://github.com/Hypsurus/skod/blob/master/src/skod.c#L273
I found this a while ago on hackernews: https://github.com/Hypsurus/skod Amazing source.
Why not use enum? https://github.com/Hypsurus/skod/blob/master/src/skod.c#L290 Also, at least some functions should be static. _cla means "command line arguments", not obvious. Useless comments: https://github.com/Hypsurus/skod/blob/master/src/skod.c#L273
I'm not saying my code is particularly readable to anyone but me, but functional style is something that 'clicked' when I fell into it.
Earlier quoted context omitted.
Why not use enum? https://github.com/Hypsurus/skod/blob/master/src/skod.c#L290 Also, at least some functions should be static. _cla means "command line arguments", not obvious. Useless comments: https://github.com/Hypsurus/skod/blob/master/src/skod.c#L273
Not my software, but if you have looked at other FTP clients this is an amazing thing to read though.
All those MAX_STR and strcat's make me wonder about security: https://github.com/Hypsurus/skod/blob/master/src/ftp.c#L14
Amazing read: https://github.com/Hypsurus/skod/blob/master/src/ftp.c#L22
No enum again: https://github.com/Hypsurus/skod/blob/master/src/utils.c#L14
Turbo Pascal for DOS. Simple, compact, quick, well documented, reasonably easy to learn, and not too expensive. I think that bloat is the enemy of beauty, so we're probably likely to find beauty in software that does a few things well.
Related: - Things That Turbo Pascal is Smaller Than: http://prog21.dadgum.com/116.html - A Personal History of Compilation Speed, Part 2: http://prog21.dadgum.com/47.html
Knuth's TeX. Set the standards for documentation, reliability, portability, typography, extensibility and scripting, is well into its fourth decade and is free software.
And after those four decades, I still can't figure out how to get my figures to appear where I want them.