Perpetual motion controller

You need Windows to use Keil tools.

Keil IDE runs under Wine...so NO, you don't need windows!

You need Windows to use Keil tools.

Keil IDE runs under Wine...so NO, you don't need windows!

But while I love Linux machines for a number of reasons, I can only note that Wine sounds like a workaround. The direct approach - using a Windows machine - do sound like a more natural way.

But please expand on this. Runs under Wine as in being able to run the IDE or being able to compile or also able to use USB with the ULink to download and debug? A lot of Win32 development tools can run the IDE and compile under Wine but fails to access programming adapters.

Why do people keep using my name around here?

Sorry, Mr Monkey.

/code chimp walks away in shame

Why do people keep using my name around here?

That's because you haven't learnt how to comment code properly. Here's a template you could try following in the future:

/***************************************************
 * File:
 *
 * Author:
 *
 * Revision:
 *
 * Revision history:
 *
 * Purpose:
 *
 * <Veiled disparaging reference to someone you dislike>
 *
 * Scope:
 *
 * Applicability:
 *
 * Side effects:
 *
 * <Snide swipe at code monkeys here>
 *
 * Arguments:
 *
 * Globals referenced:
 *
 * <Interminable discourse about globals>
 *
 * <Snide code monkey reference>
 *
 * Return value:
 *
 **************************************************/

void IncrementA(void)
{
   a=a+1;

   /*************************************
    *
    * <lengthy discourse about a++ versus a=a+1
    *
    *************************************/
}

Meaningless thread reaches 100 posts!

If a sufficiently large number of code monkeys were given teletypes, would they eventually write UNIX...?

"If a sufficiently large number of code monkeys were given teletypes, would they eventually write UNIX...?"

That would be easy.

A more challenging task would be to come up with one of Cpt. Vince's monologues ;)

"A more challenging task would be to come up with one of Cpt. Vince's monologues"

How do you know that they aren't already doing it...?

With digressions to ++a and a+=1

I would think that the number of code monkeys in service is a restricted figure, to avoid people to deduce the Peak Productive Power (PPP), so we may not be able to estimate if there are enough of them. Maybe hacking Logictech, Microsoft and Keytronic to retrieve sales figures for keyboards could help bounding the possible number of code monkeys :)

Infinite monkey theorem

en.wikipedia.org/.../Infinite_monkey_theorem

The infinite monkey theorem states that a monkey hitting keys at random on a typewriter keyboard for an infinite amount of time will almost surely type a given text, such as the complete works of William Shakespeare.

(per Linq's link...)
upload.wikimedia.org/.../Monkey-typing.jpg

After sending the photo to the FBI labs for enhancing, and examining this Code-Monkey's work, it turns out that we are indeed doing the exact same project.

Although I have dual-monitors, a P4 w/ 2G, Altium Designer, Keil, Simulink, Actel's IDE, and an assortment of equipment, it looks like the monkey is ahead of schedule: and with fewer errors.

Obloquy,

--Cpt. Vince Foster
2nd Cannon Place
Fort Marcy Park, VA