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new.sfxz text-based archive creation utility, C version
Today's fantastic adventure in Computer Mad Science is the creation of a utility to create the 'sfxz' text-based archives, such as this one (see below). But for anyone not familiar with amazing, magical, and mystifying power of Computer Mad Science, there are some other interesting things going on here.
Feature:
A simpler, faster, more reliable sfzx sytem using the C slist variation.
An experiment morphing a regular old C style set of functions into a set of C++ templates.
We rename a literal parameter type to a template parameter T and voila!
This will help demystify the horrible noise in the messy STL templates by making a simple transition from main_1 to main_2, in which error messages from the compiler
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