29 Jun 19:57
Analog is 10, Nathan is 0
+------------------------------------------------------------------------ | This is the analog-announce mailing list. | TO UNSUBSCRIBE from this list: | http://lists.meer.net/mailman/listinfo/analog-announce +------------------------------------------------------------------------ Dear analog users, Today is analog's 10th birthday! On 29th June 1995, I wrote a message to the comp.sources.testers newsgroup asking for people to test a new logfile analyser I had started writing: http://groups-beta.google.com/group/comp.sources.testers/msg/a449885a6c236789 I must have been a bit impatient, because by the following day I had already announced it to some WWW newsgroups: http://groups-beta.google.com/group/comp.infosystems.www.announce/msg/17103d1bce311c92 The source code at that time was already 2339 lines long. Now it's 25265 lines of my own, plus 32165 lines of third-party libraries. You can see the original source code and README at http://www.analog.cx/10/src/ It's interesting to compare the output then and the output now. Paradoxically, it's interesting to see both how much it has changed, and how much it has retained the same basic look: http://www.analog.cx/10/output-0.9beta3/ http://www.analog.cx/10/output-6.0/(Continue reading)
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