manynovel Chapter 123
Chapter 123
He wants to create a shareware platform—a trial-only system where users pay only if satisfied. The registration fee is twenty yuan, not expensive, and everyone can afford it. But if ten thousand people register, that's two hundred thousand yuan.
In this day and age, 200,000 yuan can buy two houses in Beichuan.
He smiled, then fell asleep.
The next day was Saturday.
Lin Feng didn't go to practice—Sun Jianguo said to practice for three days and rest for one day to allow his muscles to recover. He didn't wake up until seven o'clock, and when he got up, Cheng Yuxin was already in the kitchen.
She was wearing a white sweatshirt, her hair tied in a ponytail, and standing in front of the stove cooking porridge. Morning light streamed in through the window, illuminating her profile and softening the lines of her nose and chin.
Lin Feng stood at the kitchen doorway and watched for a while.
Cheng Yuxin felt the gaze behind her and turned around.
"What are you looking at?"
Lin Feng said, "Watch the porridge."
Cheng Yuxin rolled her eyes at him, but the corners of her mouth curved into a smile.
"Go wash up quickly, you'll be done soon."
Lin Feng went to the bathroom to wash up. When he came out, the porridge had already been served and placed on the table. There was also a dish of pickled vegetables and two boiled eggs next to it.
He sat down and picked up a spoon.
Cheng Yuxin sat opposite him and also picked up a spoon.
After taking a few bites, she spoke.
"Lin Feng, are you done writing that editor?"
Lin Feng said, "The prototype is finished. There are still many features missing."
Cheng Yuxin nodded.
"Can I use it now?"
Lin Feng looked up at her.
"You need it?"
Cheng Yuxin said, "I'm writing a paper. Notepad is too difficult to use; it freezes if I write too much. Your editor can write Chinese, right?"
Lin Feng said, "Yes. It supports GB2312."
Cheng Yuxin didn't quite understand what GB2312 was, but she trusted Lin Feng.
"Then let me try it."
Lin Feng nodded. After finishing his meal, he went back to his room, copied CodeLight v0.1 onto another floppy disk, and gave it to Cheng Yuxin.
"This is the installation file. Copy it to your computer and double-click it."
Cheng Yuxin took the floppy disk and looked at it.
"Just one disc?"
Lin Feng nodded.
Cheng Yuxin took the floppy disk and went into her room. She had a computer—no, not hers, it belonged to the teachers' college, and she had borrowed it to write her thesis at home. It was a 386, a little worse than Lin Feng's, but good enough.
Lin Feng stood in the corridor, listening to the sounds coming from her room—powering on, reading the disk, double-clicking.
Then it was quiet for a few seconds.
Then Cheng Yuxin called out.
"Lin Feng! Come quick!"
Lin Feng walked over.
Cheng Yuxin pointed at the screen, her eyes shining.
"Look! It has color!"
The screen displayed a Chinese academic paper in black text, but the annotations were gray—wait, what annotations would a Chinese academic paper have? She had opened a C language example file, which Lin Feng had casually placed on a floppy disk.
Lin Feng smiled.
"That's syntax highlighting. It's useful for writing programs, but not for writing academic papers."
Cheng Yuxin paused for a moment, then smiled.
"So, your editor can only be used for writing programs?"
Lin Feng said, "That's how it is for now. We'll add a plain text mode later."
Cheng Yuxin nodded and typed a few lines in the editor—all in Chinese. Black text and gray comments didn't appear because no comments were written. But she felt that just typing was better than using Notepad.
"Typing doesn't lag," she said, "but Notepad lags when I type fast."
Lin Feng said, "That's because Notepad redraws the entire window every time a key is pressed. I optimized it by only redrawing the parts that change."
Cheng Yuxin didn't understand, but she thought Lin Feng was very impressive.
She ejected the floppy disk and returned it to Lin Feng.
"I'll be waiting for the official version. I'll be the first to buy it when it's released."