tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28344720.post5365483459242912235..comments2024-02-21T06:47:29.430-07:00Comments on Chip Overclock<sup><small>®</small></sup>: Configuration Files Are Just Another Form of Message Passing (or Maybe Vice Versa)Chip Overclockhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11195242013008369733noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28344720.post-9115890965606092492015-03-11T14:37:10.165-06:002015-03-11T14:37:10.165-06:00That may be the longest surviving code I've ev...That may be the longest surviving code I've ever written -- about a quarter of a century -- although possibly not. But even if the code doesn't last, good ideas do. Just recently I reimplemented from scratch the buffer management code from libtools that I also wrote and is used by my parcel code.<br /><br />Always good to hear from you, Craig.Chip Overclockhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11195242013008369733noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28344720.post-91314944373616258792015-03-11T13:04:05.743-06:002015-03-11T13:04:05.743-06:00Heh, didn't remember I had a beard in those da...Heh, didn't remember I had a beard in those days.<br /><br />I still use the C++ variant based on the libtools parcel code you wrote. We used it for both configuration files and message passing in the later versions of the NCAR Mass Storage Server (MSS) user interface code and servers.Craig Ruffnoreply@blogger.com