C-related Christmas presents

[Malcolm]

Anyone think of a C-related Christmas present for Santa to bring to a
programmer, grown up but still putting out his stocking?

 

[Richard Heathfield]

Malcolm said:

Anyone think of a C-related Christmas present for Santa to bring to a
programmer, grown up but still putting out his stocking?

The complete C90 source code for a C99 implementation.

 

[goose]

Anyone think of a C-related Christmas present for Santa to bring to a
programmer, grown up but still putting out his stocking?

The ultimate present for this C developer for christmas (with my wife
looking over my shoulder as I type this is without a doubt a GPX2.

Full and open development using SDL on a handheld dual-chip
ARM processor with full gamepad controls.

Yummy.

goose,

 

[Randy Howard]

Malcolm wrote

Anyone think of a C-related Christmas present for Santa to bring to a
programmer, grown up but still putting out his stocking?

A set of those USB programmable missile launchers (foam, desktop
variety with tilt/pivot) that were a hot item last xmas, but
sold out instantly.

 

[CBFalconer]

Malcolm wrote


A set of those USB programmable missile launchers (foam, desktop
variety with tilt/pivot) that were a hot item last xmas, but
sold out instantly.

You have been feeding your DS9000 too many illegal programs.

 

[Randy Howard]

CBFalconer wrote

You have been feeding your DS9000 too many illegal programs.

I have? How can you tell? I haven't fed it a single line of
Microsoft MSDN example code, so I don't know what you mean.

 

[CBFalconer]

CBFalconer wrote

I have? How can you tell? I haven't fed it a single line of
Microsoft MSDN example code, so I don't know what you mean.

I can tell because you are out of missile launchers. I'm sure you
are capable of designing your own illegal programs without the
voluminous MSDN examples.

 

[Randy Howard]

CBFalconer wrote

I can tell because you are out of missile launchers.

You misunderstand, I suspect deliberately.

I never had one, so I am "out of" them the same way that I am
"out of" Boeing 747's in my back yard hangar, which,
coincidentally, I am also "out of".

The manufacturer was out of them last Christmas as I recall.
Thinkgeek.com and such were blown out about an hour after it hit
slashdot.org. I simply thought they would make a neat stocking
suffer (even an appropriate form factor) as the OP asked about.
Plus, they luck like more fun than writing code to twiddle bits
in a disk controller, at least as a diversion.

I'm sure you are capable of designing your own illegal programs
without the voluminous MSDN examples.

Some of the example code in Navia's compiler documentation would
make similarly good fodder, if some were needed. I try not to
spend energy designing illegal programs, there are better things
to do.

 

[Robert Gamble]

Malcolm wrote


A set of those USB programmable missile launchers (foam, desktop
variety with tilt/pivot) that were a hot item last xmas, but
sold out instantly.

USB missile launchers are so last year. The USB *rocket* launcher is
what's hot this year:
<http://www.thinkgeek.com/geektoys/warfare/8a0f/>.

Robert Gamble

 

[Randy Howard]

Robert Gamble wrote
(in article

USB missile launchers are so last year.

If I had obtained one last year, I would be inclined to agree.

The USB *rocket* launcher is what's hot this year:
<http://www.thinkgeek.com/geektoys/warfare/8a0f/>.

Cool... now they'll be gone before I can find my wallet...

 

[Richard Bos]

Anyone think of a C-related Christmas present for Santa to bring to a
programmer, grown up but still putting out his stocking?

I could do with the official C90 specs, the official C94 specs, or the
first, non-ANSI version of K&R.

Richard