Ouch

[mimus]

Firefox just developed a memory-leak on me, just past page 20 of

customer-reviews of a new and rather expensive reprint of K&R(2d ed.) (my

favorite was the feller who called C "the B-52 of programming languages"),

and I couldn't even get to my terminal to fire up top to see what was

going on, that triggering an error about not being able to operate the

launcher-- "unable to allocate memory".

<reboot>

--

tinmimus99@hotmail.com

smeeter 11 or maybe 12

mp 10

mhm 29x13

+++ Divide By Cucumber Error. Please Reinstall Universe And Reboot. +++

< Hex

 

[mimus]

On Thu, 11 Dec 2008 04:29:19 -0500, mimus wrote:


> Firefox just developed a memory-leak on me, just past page 20 of


> customer-reviews of a new and rather expensive reprint of K&R(2d ed.) (my


> favorite was the feller who called C "the B-52 of programming languages"),


> and I couldn't even get to my terminal to fire up top to see what was


> going on, that triggering an error about not being able to operate the


> launcher-- "unable to allocate memory".


>


> <reboot>

Incidentally, the above-mentioned reprint is an appalling-to-me

thirty-eight bucks for a (twenty-year-old!) paperback, and I knew damned

well I'd choke on my own bile before etc., so I looked at mine and looked

my order up on abebooks (it'd take me forever to dig through my e-commerce

records drawer to find it, and abebooks apparently keeps a record

_forever_ of your purchases, which is about equally totally cool and

totally alarming), and my edition is the "Eastern Economy Edition" put out

by Prentice-Hall of India in New Delhi in 2005, wot I got used (I guess)

but in a quite pretty blue pristine condition in 2006 for six and a half

bucks and three bucks shipping.

This "out-sourcing" stuff can work both ways, it seems.

Heh.

Although now that I think about it this may well've been booty from some

poor murdered Indian special-visa programmer, since I find it hard to

believe any real programmer in any language would let the book go except

out of his or her cold dead hands.

So it goes.

--

tinmimus99@hotmail.com

smeeter 11 or maybe 12

mp 10

mhm 29x13

C is a good language for implementing better languages in.

< Mike Vanier

RSN