| WWWWolf (2428) |
| "Writing a server in this thing is amazing." |
| Why thank you. |
| retrogramer
(697803) |
| "Whoever wrote that must have had a lot of spare time on their
hands! I can't even get a simple game to work in BASIC without LOTS of debugging of
problems that are problems because of the stupid nature of the language!" |
| Not as much as you would expect. |
| Mr. Tokyo (540833)
|
| "You have to be a true old school hacker to appreiciate his work.
Sure BASIC is dead, but just imagine what this guy can do in C." |
| Not as much as you would expect. (what echo?) |
| mhandlon (464241)
|
| "I've looked at assembly and not understood it, I've looked at C
and not understood it, and I think every time I have looked anything in perl I've not
understood it. But, now the unthinkable has happened and I've looked at basic and not
understood it." |
| I'm glad I was able to elucidate your misunderstanding of the simplcity
of BASIC. |
| magarity (164372)
|
| "It's the chuncking through those data statements at the end that
helps really beats up performance. Defining all those as strings at the beginning will
ameliorate that problem." |
| Actually it's the shunting the bytes in and out of the network card that
takes a fair wedge. |
| tomakaan (673394)
|
| "I don't forsee it ever becoming practical." |
| .. And your point is?. |
| Pedrito (94783) |
| "Note to self... Don't write TCP/IP stacks and web servers in
Basic!" |
| ... ever again. |
| Hubert_Shrump
(256081) |
| "This doesn't even cover buffer overruns > 64K -- man, that's
weak." |
| This guy doesn't read source code before commenting -- man, that's
weak! |
| sverrehu (22545)
|
| "... for stuff like this. The annual Totally worthless, 100% hack
value [catb.org],
too-much-geek-time-to-spare prize. And the 6502 BASIC TCP/IP stack-based web server
should be the first winner." |
| In accepting this most prestigious award I would like to thank ... |
| FattMattP (86246)
|
| "Finally, a use for my VIC-20." |
| Duly stolen as a future project. |
| dysprosia (661648)
|
| "10 PING WEBSITE 20 GOTO 10 I shudder at the thought! ;)" |
That should be ...
10 DO
20 A=PING(WEBSITE)
30 LOOP
... as PING would return a value. 8^)=
|
| ant_slayer (516684)
|
| "Okay, I recognize the value of doing this (as a hobbyist myself).
The fortitude required to accomplish such a feat is noteworthy. However, I have noticed
a strange trend in these kinds of posts on Slashdot. Why do so many people respond with
comments like, "I didn't know it could be done!"?.
I don't mean to denigrate the work this guy did -- in fact I'm amazed that he did it.
But I'm not amazed *that it's possible*." |
| And I agree. |
| MattBurke (58682)
|
| "is it just me who's spotted that the 404 page isn't really a 404?
;)" |
| Nope, I spotted it as well. |
| process (447778)
|
| "Anyhow, writing a web server in basic should qualify for some
karma points! =)" |
| Ohmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm. |
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