Designing

[Bill]

As a professional what? You don't even know what I do.

No, I mean Byte is not a C/C++ keyword. We went from modeling and complexity to trivia. Aim high.

[krw]

I thought you talked about programming for a government contractor.

I don't know how to spell C (or at least I have my boss convinced), but:

"Various implementations of C and C++ define a "byte" as 8, 9, 16, 32, or 36 bits" [1]

[1] "The C++ language guarantees a byte must always have at least 8 bits. But there are implementations of C++ that have more than 8 bits per byte."

Reading it again, perhaps they're really talking about "Char".

[Bill]

Yes, I did that 25 years ago.

Yes, They define "byte" but not "Byte" as I said. C is case-sensitive.

You mean "char"? :)

Maybe you are a Java or C# programmer?

[Lobby Dosser]

That's as "complex" as it gets.

[Lobby Dosser]

If you go looking for complexity you will find it.

You happen to be among those who look for and even expect complexity. It's not there.

[Lobby Dosser]

How complex can you get in 6 bits?

[Lobby Dosser]

No, Bill, it is not. LOC has nothing to do with 'complexity'.

[Lobby Dosser]

So?

[Steve Turner]

True; these days a half a million lines of code isn't a lot. I used to work on OS/2, and though most of it was written in C, a fair amount of the underlying low-level system was implemented in assembler. I really don't have any idea what the line count would have been, but I'd guess 500K wouldn't be too far off the mark. That was a LOT of assembler code. :-)

[krw]

Another reason I despise C.

You gotta be kidding. I'm a hardware designer. It's either assembler or VHDL. If it's not programmed at the metal, they can find someone cheaper. I want no part of it. ;-)

[krw]

I'd heard, from the developers, OS/2 was more like 2M LOC.

[Steve Turner]

For just the assembler? That could be; I've never seen the actual line counts. I could probably go off and perform the counts myself if I didn't have better things to do; I still have access to the source. :-)

[krw]

That's what they told us on the IBMPC FORUM, back in the "weak in the knees" days.

[Bill]

I know what you mean, but you don't appear open to the notion that complexity can have more than 1 form. Let's go back to chopping wood..I hate bickering.

Bill

[Lobby Dosser]

The only thing I hated more than assembler was COBOL. Thankfully the only thing I ever had to do with COBOL was grade a student project.