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		strbean on June 26, 2024 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Things you didn't know about GNU readline (2019) This is nostalgic. For a Systems Programming course, I had the following assignment: - Implement readline(3) - If you have any questions, see the man page. - Extra credit: implement all GNU extensions.

20after4 on June 26, 2024 [–]

What a great assignment. I would have loved that class.

strbean on July 7, 2024 | [–]

A cool way to structure the class, but hurt by the fact that the professor steadfastly refused to provide anything beyond the man pages. Even the lectures consisted of him putting a man page up on the projector and reading it aloud, verbatim.

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