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The code that time forgot

The code in this section was written by Len before he started to write code for a living and it's presented here more for amusement than anything else...

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Line Wrapper - An output buffer for an old and primitive online system. It wraps text to fit terminal widths.

I have fond memories of this particular piece of code as I used it as a sampler that I sent out with my CV when I was initially looking to become a programmer. I don't know if it helped me get taken seriously but I like to think it did...

Shared Memory - A Unix SVR4 Shared Heap. Handle based and able to expand on demand, unfortunately never used.

Rooms 1.7 - In 1989 I taught myself C to write an adventure game, the code's fairly bad, but 10 year's later, the game's still quite cool!

AVL Tree - A "generic" AVL Tree, from the dark days before templates... The code here is some of my first C++. Back in 1991 C++ was still pretty new. Looking back at my early C++ is better than looking back at my early C. At least my early C++ just looked like OKish C with some odd keywords...

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