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[Steve Dobson]

Geoff

On 17 April 2003 at 10:38 Geoff Teale wrote:
> I have just been lectured, at length, about how Sinclair
> BASIC and other BASIC's on 8-bit platforms were the most
> powerful programming environments that ever existed, and
> how C & UNIX were crap because they didn't have as much
> power.  The crux of this argument is that peek and poke
> allowed you to manipulate the memory of a machine directly
> and C doesn't have these instructions.  

I hope you said:
   ((char *) 0x12345678) = 0xAB;
Or words to that effect.

It that isn't a random POKEB into memory I don't know what is!

The fact the a machine with a correctly configured MMU doesn't
allow you destroy other processes memory is a sign of the
lack of power in Unix just shows how brain dead some programmers
can be.

Incensed of Eastbourne