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From: tedj@hpcilzb.HP.COM (Ted Johnson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: Source code library idea!
Message-ID: <730024@hpcilzb.HP.COM>
Date: 20 Apr 88 16:38:30 GMT
Organization: HP Design Tech Center - Santa Clara, CA
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I have been hacking away on my SE HD20 since June, exclusively in Lightspeed C.  

My main goal was to learn *how to* program the Mac to do all sorts of stuff,
rather than to implement one particular pet application.

As a result, I now have quite a stockpile of well-commented (I *like* comments! :-) )
LSC source code.  Most of it I *didn't* originate.  Instead, I found source code
from all over the place and either ported it from another dialect of C or else ported 
it from Pascal, or else just added comments to it.  A lot of it is from MacTutor.  
I also have copies of all the TransSkel stuff.

Is anyone interested in starting a source code library?  I.e., an anonymous-ftp'able
machine which *only* has BinHexed StuffIted source code examples....  I could set up
one on my machine, but I don't want to be redundant.  Does one already exist?
(Yes, I know about SUMEX but that's not what I had in mind).  Also, could I get into
legal problems (e.g., like if I post source code that I got from MacTutor)?!?!?!?!?!

Please let me know if you are for/against this idea, or if you have any suggestions.

P.S. If I do start this library, I guess contributions would be made by mailing me a
     BinHex/StuffIt file, which I would then add to the ftp directory.

-Ted Johnson