Lacking Natural Simplicity

Somebody took my table of Mini Six Odds of Hitting a Target Number and colorized it!

I updated the NCURSES PROGRAMMING HOWTO from The Linux Documentation Project slightly so the example programs would compile with modern compilers and my pull request was accepted in January 2025, but unfortunately the updated version has not made it online

The Ada Quality and Style: Guidelines for Professional Programmers is available on the web, but I don't think that there is a PDF copy anywhere easily found, so I'm making a copy available here.

Right, So, I've talked about how the LBL Software Tools Virtual Operating System organized its source files, using its archiver to collect all the source files, etc. for a program into an archive (sometimes with nested archives, because RECURSION IS NEAT)…

The SWTOOLS VOS provides three shells, sh, hsh (which adds a history mechanism), and esh (which adds ed-style editing of the history).

Well, it's my first program using SWTOOLS VOS this time around.

Today I fixed a 41 year old bug in the SWTOOLS VOS sedit commmand!

One of the things I've always found interesting about the LBL Software Tools VOS was how its source files were structured.

When I was in college in the 1980s the school I was at used Digital Equipment Corporation VAXes running VMS, and didn't have any Unix machines.

Fantastic Medieval Campaigns (FMC) by Marcia B. is a great retroclone and restatement of Original D&D: it's clearly written, well organized, contains a table of contents for the book and then a table of contents in each section, has a glossary and indices…