Mark4Flies@aol.com is claimed by the authorities to have written:
Since then I have poured over the C and Smalltalk code in parallel and just can't find a single discrepency. Then again, the hardest task is to find fault in one's own work...
Absolutely; thus the virtues of code reviews, pair programmming, open source etc.
I am new to the idea of plugins. I suspect that they are a mechanism to take a foreign code (like these C programs), in whole or in part, and encapsulate it with a Smalltalk interface. Yes?
Sort of. Go to the swiki (http://http://minnow.cc.gatech.edu/squeak.1 and look up 'plugins' for more than you probably want to know.
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I really appreciate your help on this problem but I honestly do not have a clue how to answer this question.
Then we must hope that somebody who is really keen on random numbers is listening and can offer us both some asistance!
tim