[self-interest] Archeology

[Casey Ransberger]

:D

I've been trying to get round to having (joke?) business cards printed that
say:

Casey Ransberger
Software Anthropologist

On Mon, Sep 15, 2014 at 8:24 PM, David Ungar ungar at me.com [self-interest] <
self-interest at yahoogroups.com> wrote:

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> That's Lars Bak's comment. He went on to do great things. Check the
> corresponding code in Dart to see if it's fixed. :)
>
> - David
> Sent from my iPhone, tap tap
>
> On Sep 15, 2014, at 7:58 PM, "Russell Allen mail at russell-allen.com
> [self-interest]" <self-interest at yahoogroups.com> wrote:
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> I think it was Vernor Vinge's Fire Upon the Deep that has computer
> archeologists who don't so much program as decypher ancient computer
> systems. Self is at times a bit like that, though hopefully I won't awaken
> a hostile weakly godlike AI :)
>
> Exhibit A, a comment in "globals sunLinker loadPath: fpath IfFail: errBlk":
>
> *If the scheduler is running _Dlopen has to be wrapped with*
> *     unixGlobals os_file stopAsync and startAsync to avoid undefined
> status of*
> *     stdin, stdout, and stderr in case the dynamic linker decides to *
> *     abort this unix process. April 92, LB*
>
> I wonder whether this bug, whatever it was, has been fixed since 1992 :)
>
> Russell
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