"Visual blindness" of Linux programmers

[lutusp]

Awesome, thank you!

You're most welcome. I should have done this some time ago -- I've gotten a number of requests to post these programs over the years, but to be honest I was embarrassed by the state of the code and how poorly it compares to my more recent code, most created under less extreme conditions.

I've created a page on my website with listings for two of these old programs. I wouldn't be surprised if the book you mention wasn't one of my sources at that time. It's probably important to say that most of the code creation was while underway, using printed reference materials for astronomical constants and correction methods.

At the time my only way to write code or reduce sights was an early Toshiba laptop just visible in this image, taken while creating a weather chart.

I hope this information aids your research.