Chapter 14 Now Available on My Website

[Bob Schroeck]

Ace Dreamer wrote:

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Doug takes a copy of the source of an anonymous delayed-mail server, to take home with him, but later on he makes clear that the differences between two nano-CAD programming languages means that even with a converter, there is a lot of hand-tuneing to do. These two might not be considered completely consistent.

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Actually, as Loki and others pointed out, there isn't really a conflict. The server source is written in whatever version of C/C++ is current in 2037; while it probably isn't statement-for-statement compatible with its WW equivalent, Doug won't have much of a problem making it work -- it's an open language, more or less, and he knows what the program is supposed to do.
In the case of the nanofac langauges, on the other hand, they're both proprietary codes -- and specialized for their particular task, which is to operate a fiendishly complex set of machinery capable of manipulating individual atoms -- a technology that Warriors' World doesn't quite have yet, except as isolated innovations and test cases. And yes, GENOM does take a page (hell, a whole chapter) from Microsoft's book and makes its stuff as different from other manufacturers' systems as possible, to maximize customer lock-in. There are nanofac standards, and GENOM pays lip service to them, the same way Microsoft pays lip service to various standards here and now.

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>I had a solution cooking for charge the Three made of me.
The final sentence needs work.

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Yes, it does, doesn't it? Missing words strike again -- my single worst problem when writing, caused by typing just a little slower than I think.
How about: "I had a solution cooking for the charge that the Three had made of me."?

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Kilroy uses the name 'Doug', whereas everyone else at IDEC uses 'Craig'; was this intentional?

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Nope. Mistake.
Thanks for the catches.

-- Bob
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