Last updated 2005-11-24:.

Some of My Code

Ooh, shiny new subdirectory as of November 2005. (If this paragraph is still here after the end of January 2006, y'all get to tease me about not updating my web site often enough.)

This will be a place for me to drop programs I think others may find useful, programs I want to show off, examples of what I think halfway decent commenting looks like, and snippets written to help explain something to folks I try to teach via email and think might be useful to someone else trying to learn the same things. I'll slowly migrate some of my old code to here, and probably even more slowly add new programs -- I'm not coding as much as I used to before the fibromyalgia clobbered me, but I've got a few projects on the back burner.

What's Here:

abcpp (language: C) is my modification to Guido Gonzato's ABC preprocessor. My changes are marked off with #ifdefs and there's a link to the official web site as well.
midi-test-gen (language: C) is a quick hack I wrote which in turns writes an ABC music file which I then used to create a MIDI file that plays each sound ("instrument") of a MIDI player in turn, sounding out the MIDI Instrument Number for that sound in binary, so that I could quickly associate numbers to sounds and names. (The list of names:numbers I had downloaded was off by one. This was how I sorted that out.)
multifinger (language: C) is now obsolete, but I felt pretty good about my first program using fork() and pipes back in 1995 when I wrote it (I'd used fork() trivially before, but I hadn't tried to tie processes to each other through a pipe until then), and I still feel pretty good about the job I did commenting it. (Even if the implementation I came up with was slow-running ...)

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