Re: Manipulating C code at the AST level, in C

On 8/16/26 15:13, rbowman wrote:
> On Sun, 16 Aug 2026 02:09:57 -0400, c186282 wrote:
> 
>>   You brought a
>>     jacket so you could do shit in the CPU room.
> 
> At RPI the shrine where the 360/30 lived was the only place on campus with
> A/C. Not a bad thing on those days when the humidity in the Hudson Valley
> hits 99.9%.


   Heh heh ... yea, there WAS a little span where
   the coolest place in town, literally, was the
   govt/biz CPU room !


> The last place I worked was a converted mill building. Rather nice
> architecturally but every HVAC company in town had taken a shot at it with
> limited success. Programming wore flannel shirts in August and it wasn't a
> style thing. Portable electric heaters appeared to the consternation of
> the maintenance people.

   Older buildings, like old British castles, were NOT
   designed with modern conveniences in mind. The Brits
   just ran lots of pipes and shit along the upper walls.
   Kinda ugly, but WORK.

> Conversely, I leaned toward short sleeved shirts in December. The poor
> bastards on the 2nd floor were on the opposite schedule.

   The old boxes had to be kept within a narrow
   temperature range. Mostly that's be 'cooler'
   but in winter might be 'hotter'.

   I remember an old govt place - a DEC cpu box,
   about a cubic meter, discrete transistors - in
   the middle of the room and all the tape drive
   units along the walls. They kept it about 55/60F
   in there at all times WITH an enforced breeze.

   BUT ... it supported dozens of serial terminals,
   local and remote,  and everybody COULD get their
   necessary shit done.

   Almost *all* COBOL.

   Hmmm ... these days you can earn BIG money if
   you know, and can fix/mod, COBOL code from the
   1960s. Rather a LOT of places paid BIG $$$ to
   have COBOL pros write their core operating
   software back then - and can now not AFFORD to
   port it all over to anything else.

   Oh, that olde-tyme COBOL code - SOLID ! Yer
   stereotypical white-shirt/narrow-tie guys
   who KNEW THEIR SHIT far better than most today.
   Not EVER gonna cuss them.