Comments on: If HP Lovecraft wrote C manuals http://boingboing.net/2010/01/10/if-hp-lovecraft-wrot.html Brain candy for Happy Mutants Wed, 19 Jun 2013 21:06:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.1 By: Anonymous http://boingboing.net/2010/01/10/if-hp-lovecraft-wrot.html#comment-684807 Anonymous Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-684807 For Perl, please see my module, Acme::Phlegethoth, on the Comprehensive Perl Archive Network: http://search.cpan.org/dist/Acme-Phlegethoth/ For Perl, please see my module, Acme::Phlegethoth, on the Comprehensive Perl Archive Network: http://search.cpan.org/dist/Acme-Phlegethoth/

]]> By: Anonymous http://boingboing.net/2010/01/10/if-hp-lovecraft-wrot.html#comment-683793 Anonymous Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-683793 But had they had single line comments, they would have used them. The Olde Ones did! But had they had single line comments, they would have used them. The Olde Ones did!

]]> By: bobtato http://boingboing.net/2010/01/10/if-hp-lovecraft-wrot.html#comment-685113 bobtato Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-685113 The code in the quotation above is broken because... <i>something...</i> has eaten the characters after the less-than sign, but the original compiles OK. Of course, the linker will give errors because swap() and main() have been left as exercises for the reader and even if they hadn't, the creeping squamous symbols in this code may well cause ld to go utterly insane and link your face to thousands of tiny screaming spiders. The code in the quotation above is broken because… something… has eaten the characters after the less-than sign, but the original compiles OK.

Of course, the linker will give errors because swap() and main() have been left as exercises for the reader and even if they hadn’t, the creeping squamous symbols in this code may well cause ld to go utterly insane and link your face to thousands of tiny screaming spiders.

]]> By: bobtato http://boingboing.net/2010/01/10/if-hp-lovecraft-wrot.html#comment-685117 bobtato Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-685117 PS kudos on Acme::Phlegethtoth. There truly are no end of uses for Perl. PS kudos on Acme::Phlegethtoth. There truly are no end of uses for Perl.

]]> By: Anonymous http://boingboing.net/2010/01/10/if-hp-lovecraft-wrot.html#comment-684098 Anonymous Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-684098 The Old Ones never actually compiled their code, because this code contains a syntax error. ;) The Old Ones never actually compiled their code, because this code contains a syntax error. ;)

]]> By: Anonymous http://boingboing.net/2010/01/10/if-hp-lovecraft-wrot.html#comment-684118 Anonymous Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-684118 Too bad it's spelt 'fthagn'. In both programming and summoning eldritch horrors, spelling and pronunciation matter! Too bad it’s spelt ‘fthagn’.

In both programming and summoning eldritch horrors, spelling and pronunciation matter!

]]> By: dragonfrog http://boingboing.net/2010/01/10/if-hp-lovecraft-wrot.html#comment-684394 dragonfrog Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-684394 Your compiler fails to produce an executable, as a means of protecting its sanity. It is not a syntax "error", your compiler simply lacks the fortitude to face the horrifying implications of the syntax. Your compiler fails to produce an executable, as a means of protecting its sanity. It is not a syntax “error”, your compiler simply lacks the fortitude to face the horrifying implications of the syntax.

]]> By: pKp http://boingboing.net/2010/01/10/if-hp-lovecraft-wrot.html#comment-683692 pKp Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-683692 It's not exactly a "mashup", it's a rewrite/pastiche of "The Shadow Over Innsmouth". Good for a laugh, tho. Thanks ! It’s not exactly a “mashup”, it’s a rewrite/pastiche of “The Shadow Over Innsmouth”.

Good for a laugh, tho. Thanks !

]]> By: mirrormonkey http://boingboing.net/2010/01/10/if-hp-lovecraft-wrot.html#comment-683731 mirrormonkey Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-683731 It's not exactly a "mashup", K&R C lacked C++-style comments (//), which is a C99-ism It’s not exactly a “mashup”, K&R C lacked C++-style comments (//), which is a C99-ism

]]> By: klg19 http://boingboing.net/2010/01/10/if-hp-lovecraft-wrot.html#comment-683747 klg19 Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-683747 Don't you mean "eldritch" horrors? I've always loved that word. Don’t you mean “eldritch” horrors?

I’ve always loved that word.

]]> By: bobtato http://boingboing.net/2010/01/10/if-hp-lovecraft-wrot.html#comment-683755 bobtato Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-683755 It is too a mashup– I just bludgeoned section 4.10 of K&R (2nd ed.) into <i>The Shadow over Innsmouth</i> by brute force (this was for the previous BoingBoing mashup contest). You're right about the C++ comments, though. Now I feel like a total asshole. It is too a mashup– I just bludgeoned section 4.10 of K&R (2nd ed.) into The Shadow over Innsmouth by brute force (this was for the previous BoingBoing mashup contest). You’re right about the C++ comments, though. Now I feel like a total asshole.

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