RE: Looking for old code

grondak — Tue, 25 Aug 2020 19:33:11 GMT

RE: Looking for old code

dubbie — Mon, 19 Aug 2019 10:02:06 GMT

Every now and then I look up old code. Sometimes I can find it and sometimes I cannot. Where does old code go as I am sure I never delete anything? Maybe it lurks in some long forgotten or unknown directory on the hard drive. Then I can never remember how it works - even though I follow some software engineering practices with structuring and commenting. Sometimes I look through the comments and have a good laugh at my thought processes as displayed. I always remember one small fragment to do with outputting text to a line printer (*yes, it was that long ago) written in Visual Basic (a fun language when you've been used to assembler). I was fighting VB, serial communications and the printer all at the same time. eventually I stumbled on a solution that worked and the comment was along the lines of 'I have no idea why this works, but it does'.

Dubbie

RE: Looking for old code

grondak — Sun, 18 Aug 2019 03:32:47 GMT

I reconnected the board to the BeagleBone and everything works as planned. Makes cleaning up a lot easier!