Interlaced C source files:
Instead of 80 column lines, each line is only 40 characters and contains every other letter. The next line is also 40 letters and contains the other letters.
This would solve no problems and make a significant number of things worse
It's specialized for source for 16bit computers where the firmware is split across two eeproms, where high/low bytes are on different chips
oooh: specialized editor that types on two lines as you type. So you type "Hello world!" and get:
Hlowrd
el ol!
it's only 80 characters in north america and japan. in europe they use PAL, which is 70 characters
interlaced C is defined to be 7-bit, so 8-bit computers save interlaced C files with the high bit set for the second line. This makes them tricky to edit, but you get used to it.
"hello" is "Φσ∞∞∩", for example
this is for interoperability. see, which line goes first depends on the endianness of your PC.
odd-first is for big endian PCs, even-first for little.
and if you are on a 7bit machine and don't know if the source is from a BE or LE machine?
just compile it both ways! whichever one produces fewer errors is probably correct.
also I can't really use the term "BE" anymore now that I've been hanging out with a bunch of TF fetishists on tumblr. that's... not what it means over there.
anyway, homework assignment: develop an interlaced C program that compiles in both big endian and little endian mode.
