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   NoBeret :verified: Fun Killer (noberet@noagendasocial.com)'s status on Friday, 20-Oct-2023 10:18:54 JST NoBeret :verified: Fun Killer

   Windows Longhorn and the Worst Code I've Ever Seen: Dave Cutler https://youtu.be/vxmZPMg7vIs?si=LSNmXtDuciIy68k8

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     Sir Funk ?? (sophistifunk@noagendasocial.com)'s status on Friday, 20-Oct-2023 10:18:52 JST Sir Funk ??

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     @mhjohnson @NoBeret wtf is Jovial? Never heard of it and I'm old AF.

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     Mark :verified: (mhjohnson@noagendasocial.com)'s status on Friday, 20-Oct-2023 10:18:53 JST Mark :verified:

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     The worst code I ever saw (twice!) was a symbol table built as an unsorted list.

     The first time was in the early 1980s in a VAX program to process the user usage logs. The unsorted list performed poorly with over 1000 active users / month.

     The second time was a Jovial to Ada translator. Worked OK until I fed it an F-16 program that had a LOT of symbols. Over 3 CPU days - still did not finish. After recode to a hash table - done in under 15 minutes.

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     Mark :verified: (mhjohnson@noagendasocial.com)'s status on Friday, 20-Oct-2023 10:22:23 JST Mark :verified:

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     @Sophistifunk @NoBeret
     From the Book of Knowledge
     https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JOVIAL
     A lot of old aircraft flight software was written in Jovial before Ada came out.

     I worked with Jules on a custom language in the 1980s. A pretty decent dude.

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     Sir Funk ?? (sophistifunk@noagendasocial.com)'s status on Friday, 20-Oct-2023 10:30:32 JST Sir Funk ??

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     @mhjohnson TIL. Churbrew.