Claude Code transcript

Great point. Most of my sed commands were reproducing entire original lines just to add ! or indent them. A better approach:

• Channel direction !/? additions: small substitutions like s/screen)/screen!)/ — already minimal, fine.
• ... → 20: already minimal, fine.
• PROC life wrapper: instead of replacing all 16 lines with their indented copies, just insert the PROC header, indent the range by 2 spaces, substitute terminal.keyboard → keyboard / terminal.screen → screen, and append the closing :\n.
• clear.screen / move.cursor: the originals use write.string/write.formatted/DATA.ITEM which are deleted and replaced with entirely new code — no original content in the replacements.
• Header and helper procs: entirely new text.

Let me write a cleaner script using this approach.

PR created: https://github.com/codeassociates/occam2go/pull/95

Here's a summary of what was done:

1. Removed historical-examples/life.occ from the repository
2. Added historical-examples/fetch-life.sh — a script that downloads the original from the book website and applies modifications using surgical sed edits
3. Updated .gitignore to exclude the generated life.occ

The key design choice per your feedback: the script avoids reproducing copyrighted lines by using minimal substitutions on specific line numbers. For example: - Adding !/? channel direction annotations: s/screen)/screen!)/ — only the tiny changed fragment - Wrapping in PROC life: inserts the header line, indents the existing range by 2 spaces, and substitutes terminal.keyboard → keyboard — never reproduces any original line - Only genuinely new code (helper procs, rewritten clear.screen/move.cursor) appears in full