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Mr Bombastic

mindrobotsmindrobots Posts: 6,506
edited 2014-05-16 09:18 in General Discussion
Mr. Bombastic (it's safe - and funny!)

(things are getting a little too serious around here sometimes)

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  • LoopyBytelooseLoopyByteloose Posts: 12,537
    edited 2014-05-16 07:54
    Well, newcomers need to understand that we have bombastic C lovers and bombastic C haters here. And then there are the bombastic DIP users and the bombastic SMD users. Nothing escapes the bombasity as the bombasts are everywhere...

    boom. boom. boom.

    C is driving me crazy. ... no 10_0000 notation. I have to convert everything to decimal, hexadecimal, or octal. (Octal ? I thought that was retired)

    We also have bombastic penny-pinchers and bombastic compulsive shoppers. Bankrupt idealist and shrewd pragmatics... all bombastic in their own way.
  • jazzedjazzed Posts: 11,803
    edited 2014-05-16 07:59
    Loopy Byteloose wrote: »
    C is driving me crazy. ... no 10_0000 notation. I have to convert everything to decimal, hexadecimal, or octal. (Octal ? I thought that was retired)


    LOL. The ANSI committee didn't think to consult with the Spin manual when they wrote the original spec in the late 1980's.
  • mindrobotsmindrobots Posts: 6,506
    edited 2014-05-16 08:08
    jazzed wrote: »
    LOL. The ANSI committee didn't think to consult with the Spin manual when they wrote the original spec in the late 1980's.

    Well, you KNOW how people are about manuals!! :lol:
  • Heater.Heater. Posts: 21,230
    edited 2014-05-16 08:24
    @mindrobots,

    Excellent.

    Rowan is one of my heros, a role model. Especially his Black Adder character. Mr Bean, not so good.

    @Loopy,

    I agree about that octal notation in C. That is seriously brain damaged.

    Even more brain damaged is that it is carried over to JavaScript and Java, much later languages where they had the chance to fix that.

    Why there isn't a notation for binary is beyond me. C was supposed to be a "portable assembler" right? Where is the binary notation?

    Well at least GCC has a non-standard extension for that e.g. 0b01011001
  • LoopyBytelooseLoopyByteloose Posts: 12,537
    edited 2014-05-16 09:08
    OMG1 Propeller GCC allows 0b0010_0000 and so on? I didn't see that mentioned anywhere. Thx.
  • Heater.Heater. Posts: 21,230
    edited 2014-05-16 09:18
    I'm not sure about the including "_" separators part.

    Turns out there are a number of compilers that support the 0b101001 syntax.
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