(new) Theory and Practice of Programming

calling Crusty Fin... calling Crusty Fin... - (folkert) - (10) - Oct. 16, 2003, 12:22:46 PM EDT

Wake up CRC!!! - (ChrisR) - (6) - Oct. 16, 2003, 03:16:14 PM EDT

Well according to EIS Online - (orion) - (5) - Oct. 16, 2003, 08:46:20 PM EDT

Hard to say - (ChrisR) - Oct. 16, 2003, 08:58:06 PM EDT

Not looking for anything from someone with zero - (folkert) - Oct. 16, 2003, 10:16:06 PM EDT

Well, that was a pretty useless link. Oh, and learn to READ! (new thread) - (CRConrad) - Oct. 17, 2003, 04:06:26 AM EDT

Well, that was a pretty useless link. Oh, and learn to READ! (new thread) - (CRConrad) - Oct. 17, 2003, 05:29:22 AM EDT

Not entirely... - (jb4) - Oct. 17, 2003, 10:56:48 AM EDT

Hard to say.. As usual, "it depends". - (CRConrad) - (2) - Oct. 17, 2003, 06:01:53 AM EDT

Thanks... am passing along info to this vendor... - (folkert) - (1) - Oct. 17, 2003, 11:43:00 AM EDT

That sounds quite promising, actually. - (CRConrad) - Oct. 19, 2003, 05:40:27 PM EDT

Combinatron - (tablizer) - (39) - Oct. 15, 2003, 06:44:35 PM EDT

Python example (using generators) - (admin) - (3) - Oct. 15, 2003, 07:25:59 PM EDT

Nice language - reads as easy as pseudocode - (deSitter) - (2) - Oct. 15, 2003, 07:51:28 PM EDT

Post the code. -NT - (admin) - (1) - Oct. 15, 2003, 09:23:31 PM EDT

The idiom - (deSitter) - Oct. 16, 2003, 06:10:13 AM EDT

OK, so the generators were nifty, but not needed :-) - (admin) - (34) - Oct. 15, 2003, 07:30:15 PM EDT

Probably more efficient: - (admin) - (33) - Oct. 15, 2003, 07:34:53 PM EDT

And the readable version :P - (FuManChu) - (32) - Oct. 16, 2003, 12:12:40 AM EDT

Ick. Globals. - (admin) - (31) - Oct. 16, 2003, 11:12:49 AM EDT

Granted. - (FuManChu) - (30) - Oct. 16, 2003, 03:32:18 PM EDT

Like this? - (admin) - (29) - Oct. 16, 2003, 04:32:00 PM EDT

This is probably worth decomposing, too - (admin) - Oct. 16, 2003, 05:02:10 PM EDT

Now you've EARNED my nasty Perl tricks... - (ben_tilly) - (25) - Oct. 16, 2003, 07:31:28 PM EDT

Yabut... - (admin) - (20) - Oct. 16, 2003, 07:29:32 PM EDT

Re: Yabut... - (deSitter) - (1) - Oct. 16, 2003, 07:56:41 PM EDT

Appearances *are* complexity - (FuManChu) - Oct. 16, 2003, 08:00:38 PM EDT

They can? - (ben_tilly) - (17) - Oct. 16, 2003, 07:58:47 PM EDT

Ruby? (Perl was impressive, knock me out dude) -NT - (deSitter) - (15) - Oct. 16, 2003, 08:04:07 PM EDT

Sorry, I am rusty enough not to attempt it - (ben_tilly) - Oct. 16, 2003, 08:11:02 PM EDT

Two Ruby Versions - (JimWeirich) - (13) - Oct. 17, 2003, 05:23:19 PM EDT

Recursive + stack space... - (admin) - (10) - Oct. 17, 2003, 05:30:56 PM EDT

Re: Recursive + stack space... - (JimWeirich) - (7) - Oct. 17, 2003, 06:31:32 PM EDT

Ah, ok. - (admin) - (6) - Oct. 18, 2003, 01:15:01 PM EDT

Proof by induction - (deSitter) - (5) - Oct. 18, 2003, 01:28:31 PM EDT

... - (admin) - (4) - Oct. 18, 2003, 01:32:39 PM EDT

(sheepish grimace) - (deSitter) - Oct. 18, 2003, 01:49:38 PM EDT

Recursion and Lisp - (JimWeirich) - (2) - Oct. 18, 2003, 02:51:28 PM EDT

You still misunderstand me. - (admin) - (1) - Oct. 18, 2003, 03:31:03 PM EDT

Re: You still misunderstand me. - (deSitter) - Oct. 18, 2003, 08:05:14 PM EDT

Only other people's... :) - (FuManChu) - (1) - Oct. 18, 2003, 05:34:05 PM EDT

No, I should go look that one up. -NT - (admin) - Oct. 18, 2003, 09:20:21 PM EDT

Let me golf the one-liner a little... - (ben_tilly) - (1) - Oct. 17, 2003, 06:18:01 PM EDT

Ooo ... Good call on split - (JimWeirich) - Oct. 17, 2003, 06:48:44 PM EDT

Wrong interpretation. - (admin) - Oct. 16, 2003, 08:26:45 PM EDT

Please deconstruct it for me - (broomberg) - (3) - Oct. 16, 2003, 07:37:25 PM EDT

Deconstructed - (ben_tilly) - (2) - Oct. 16, 2003, 07:56:38 PM EDT

Ahh - (broomberg) - (1) - Oct. 17, 2003, 01:55:58 PM EDT

Ditto, but I remember the stupid trick for golf -NT - (ben_tilly) - Oct. 17, 2003, 02:01:30 PM EDT

Mein Gott. - (FuManChu) - (1) - Oct. 16, 2003, 07:56:33 PM EDT

Yep. It's a great language. -NT - (admin) - Oct. 16, 2003, 08:28:10 PM EDT

How long should routines be in different kinds of code? - (ben_tilly) - (12) - Oct. 13, 2003, 06:30:48 PM EDT

Great question - (deSitter) - (2) - Oct. 13, 2003, 07:48:01 PM EDT

Re: Great question - (JimWeirich) - (1) - Oct. 14, 2003, 01:58:59 AM EDT

Re: Great question - (deSitter) - Oct. 14, 2003, 06:26:08 AM EDT

Are you looking for more discussion? ;) - (FuManChu) - (2) - Oct. 13, 2003, 08:06:33 PM EDT

The responses that I liked best... - (ben_tilly) - (1) - Oct. 15, 2003, 01:34:53 AM EDT

Re: The responses that I liked best... - (JimWeirich) - Oct. 15, 2003, 01:09:06 PM EDT

Re: How long should routines be in different kinds of code? - (JimWeirich) - (3) - Oct. 14, 2003, 01:52:53 AM EDT

McCabe's complexity metric is utterly fscked - (neelk) - (2) - Oct. 14, 2003, 10:09:27 AM EDT

While I agree with your sentiment - (Simon_Jester) - Oct. 14, 2003, 12:27:23 PM EDT

I won't disagree... - (ben_tilly) - Oct. 15, 2003, 01:29:44 AM EDT

2 pages max for Perl for me - (broomberg) - Oct. 14, 2003, 10:03:00 PM EDT

My rules of thumb - (tuberculosis) - Oct. 15, 2003, 09:34:19 PM EDT

Perl problem? - (deSitter) - (5) - Oct. 11, 2003, 11:08:33 AM EDT

Perl would work - (ChrisR) - Oct. 11, 2003, 04:19:31 PM EDT

Bad solution... - (ben_tilly) - (3) - Oct. 11, 2003, 04:49:29 PM EDT

Super! - (deSitter) - (2) - Oct. 11, 2003, 06:33:57 PM EDT

I'm not sure what you mean, but you can fix it... -NT - (ben_tilly) - (1) - Oct. 11, 2003, 08:21:07 PM EDT

already did - no big deal - (deSitter) - Oct. 11, 2003, 08:22:36 PM EDT

make brainfart - (deSitter) - (1) - Oct. 11, 2003, 02:19:34 AM EDT

Depends - (Arkadiy) - Oct. 13, 2003, 10:21:53 AM EDT

More g++ 3 and std - (deSitter) - Oct. 11, 2003, 12:11:27 AM EDT

Which reminds me - C++ is why our hardware sucks - (tuberculosis) - (15) - Oct. 10, 2003, 07:41:07 PM EDT

Re: Which reminds me - C++ is why our hardware sucks - (deSitter) - Oct. 10, 2003, 07:53:36 PM EDT

Wow! if I understand a fraction of the implications - (Ashton) - (10) - Oct. 10, 2003, 08:06:46 PM EDT

There are pockets - (tuberculosis) - (9) - Oct. 10, 2003, 10:55:06 PM EDT

Maybe we need a half-way. - (static) - (1) - Oct. 11, 2003, 04:28:12 AM EDT

Wasn't that the original guiding force for Java? -NT - (jb4) - Oct. 12, 2003, 11:46:14 AM EDT

Sad reminder of Berman___[Twilight of American Culture] (new thread) - (Ashton) - Oct. 11, 2003, 05:50:16 AM EDT

Isn't that where we're going anyway???? - (gdaustin) - (5) - Oct. 11, 2003, 10:46:23 AM EDT

We're going nowhere - (tuberculosis) - (2) - Oct. 11, 2003, 01:13:29 PM EDT

Speaking as a youth-poisoning educator - (tjsinclair) - Oct. 11, 2003, 06:55:50 PM EDT

Thank you. That fits. - (Ashton) - Oct. 11, 2003, 08:36:33 PM EDT

Safely predicting the present :) - (FuManChu) - (1) - Oct. 11, 2003, 02:12:17 PM EDT

Or, failing Wi-Fi, Ethernet plug -NT - (Arkadiy) - Oct. 12, 2003, 06:54:44 PM EDT

That reminds me... - (ben_tilly) - (1) - Oct. 11, 2003, 05:04:35 PM EDT

Interesting - something to watch - thanks -NT - (tuberculosis) - Oct. 11, 2003, 08:40:40 PM EDT

Been there, done that - (jb4) - Oct. 12, 2003, 11:45:00 AM EDT

More gcc grumblage - WTF is a "dso_handle"? - (deSitter) - (2) - Oct. 10, 2003, 06:59:53 PM EDT

Re: More gcc grumblage - WTF is a "dso_handle"? - (admin) - (1) - Oct. 10, 2003, 07:18:06 PM EDT

Natch - (deSitter) - Oct. 10, 2003, 07:27:03 PM EDT

Pair programming for coding newbies? - (tjsinclair) - (27) - Oct. 8, 2003, 11:19:22 PM EDT

Could be interesting. - (static) - (4) - Oct. 9, 2003, 02:12:58 AM EDT

Good points - (tjsinclair) - (3) - Oct. 9, 2003, 08:46:30 AM EDT

Like Alex says below - (drewk) - (1) - Oct. 9, 2003, 09:26:47 AM EDT

Got it - (tjsinclair) - Oct. 9, 2003, 10:45:37 AM EDT

Separation of thinking and typing. - (static) - Oct. 9, 2003, 11:27:17 PM EDT

I found PP a skill that's hard for me. - (Arkadiy) - (2) - Oct. 9, 2003, 07:14:37 AM EDT

Bingo. - (a6l6e6x) - Oct. 9, 2003, 07:28:56 AM EDT

Agreed - (tjsinclair) - Oct. 9, 2003, 08:49:40 AM EDT

Re: Pair programming for coding newbies? - (JimWeirich) - (1) - Oct. 9, 2003, 08:37:55 AM EDT

They'll be next to each other - (tjsinclair) - Oct. 9, 2003, 08:50:12 AM EDT

Another idiotic software idea - (deSitter) - (16) - Oct. 9, 2003, 06:16:12 PM EDT

Beg to disagree... - (hnick) - (11) - Oct. 9, 2003, 06:23:50 PM EDT

With one minor difference in my case - (tjsinclair) - (8) - Oct. 9, 2003, 08:51:53 PM EDT

Where to begin? - (deSitter) - (5) - Oct. 9, 2003, 09:31:02 PM EDT

Details? - (tjsinclair) - (4) - Oct. 9, 2003, 10:51:34 PM EDT

Re: Details? - (deSitter) - (3) - Oct. 9, 2003, 11:29:08 PM EDT

Good points, thanks - (tjsinclair) - (2) - Oct. 10, 2003, 01:18:59 PM EDT

How about teaching them how to template? - (static) - (1) - Oct. 10, 2003, 06:17:38 PM EDT

Good idea - (tjsinclair) - Oct. 10, 2003, 07:47:57 PM EDT

Ok, to extend my point - (hnick) - (1) - Oct. 10, 2003, 07:53:11 AM EDT

My thoughts as well -NT - (tjsinclair) - Oct. 10, 2003, 01:24:14 PM EDT

Consider it as parallel processing - (Arkadiy) - (1) - Oct. 10, 2003, 08:48:46 AM EDT

That was my thought as well -NT - (tjsinclair) - Oct. 10, 2003, 01:23:08 PM EDT

Re: Another idiotic software idea - (JimWeirich) - (3) - Oct. 11, 2003, 01:12:59 AM EDT

Re: Another idiotic software idea - (deSitter) - Oct. 11, 2003, 01:50:24 AM EDT

Speed and pair programming. - (static) - Oct. 11, 2003, 04:31:03 AM EDT

Re: Another idiotic software idea - (neelk) - Oct. 11, 2003, 07:52:40 PM EDT

I'm having a problem grokking C - (jake123) - (61) - Oct. 7, 2003, 08:34:16 PM EDT

"\\0" is a string - not a character - (ChrisR) - (54) - Oct. 7, 2003, 08:42:18 PM EDT

Re: "\\0" is a string - not a character - (jake123) - (23) - Oct. 7, 2003, 08:57:21 PM EDT

Double quotes is a string: - (ChrisR) - Oct. 7, 2003, 09:09:59 PM EDT

You want to use '0' not "0". - (a6l6e6x) - (21) - Oct. 7, 2003, 09:16:16 PM EDT

Thanks guys - (jake123) - (20) - Oct. 7, 2003, 10:25:03 PM EDT

sheesh, wackiness - (jake123) - (17) - Oct. 7, 2003, 10:54:30 PM EDT

operator precedence -NT - (deSitter) - (3) - Oct. 7, 2003, 11:01:11 PM EDT

According to my text - (jake123) - (2) - Oct. 8, 2003, 12:11:44 AM EDT

use "unsigned char" - (deSitter) - Oct. 8, 2003, 12:25:50 AM EDT

Re: According to my text - (Arkadiy) - Oct. 8, 2003, 03:31:57 AM EDT

Should be equivalent indeed - (Arkadiy) - (12) - Oct. 8, 2003, 03:09:52 AM EDT

Well, interestingly enough - (jake123) - (11) - Oct. 8, 2003, 03:53:42 AM EDT

Re: Well, interestingly enough - (Arkadiy) - (10) - Oct. 8, 2003, 08:49:08 AM EDT

Yes, I was sure. -NT - (jake123) - (9) - Oct. 8, 2003, 08:48:57 PM EDT

copy/paste the full code, then -NT - (Arkadiy) - (8) - Oct. 9, 2003, 07:07:56 AM EDT

Sure, here's my final version - (jake123) - (7) - Oct. 10, 2003, 12:59:17 PM EDT

Works with or without parens for me - (Arkadiy) - (4) - Oct. 10, 2003, 08:45:17 AM EDT

Feel free - (jake123) - (3) - Oct. 10, 2003, 10:49:06 AM EDT

Re: Feel free - (Arkadiy) - (2) - Oct. 10, 2003, 04:09:28 PM EDT

You're suggesting that - (jake123) - (1) - Oct. 13, 2003, 11:59:46 AM EDT

Basically, yes - (Arkadiy) - Oct. 13, 2003, 12:48:50 PM EDT

Works here too, both ways. gcc 3.3.2 -NT - (scoenye) - (1) - Oct. 10, 2003, 01:50:05 PM EDT

It is working here - (jake123) - Oct. 10, 2003, 03:25:25 PM EDT

What is the type of 'value1' ? - (jb4) - (1) - Oct. 8, 2003, 01:28:43 PM EDT

Nah, it's an int - (jake123) - Oct. 8, 2003, 08:48:05 PM EDT

NOT better! - (jb4) - (29) - Oct. 8, 2003, 01:23:06 PM EDT

Think we've had this argument before - (ChrisR) - Oct. 8, 2003, 02:04:42 PM EDT

Agreed -NT - (deSitter) - Oct. 8, 2003, 03:34:13 PM EDT

NOT boolean - this is C - (tuberculosis) - (25) - Oct. 8, 2003, 10:22:43 PM EDT

Re: NOT boolean - this is C - (deSitter) - (1) - Oct. 9, 2003, 12:53:53 AM EDT

Nah, put on your binary thinking cap. :) - (a6l6e6x) - Oct. 9, 2003, 07:39:39 AM EDT

Yes, yes...agreed - (jb4) - (22) - Oct. 10, 2003, 11:18:37 AM EDT

Breaking bad habits - (ChrisR) - (21) - Oct. 10, 2003, 12:20:29 PM EDT

Good points... - (jb4) - (15) - Oct. 10, 2003, 12:50:20 PM EDT

Not that I do a tremendous amount of C programming... - (admin) - (4) - Oct. 10, 2003, 01:14:34 PM EDT

K&R - (ChrisR) - Oct. 10, 2003, 02:20:54 PM EDT

My mileage varies. :-) - (static) - Oct. 10, 2003, 06:32:52 PM EDT

They are all ugly - (tuberculosis) - (1) - Oct. 10, 2003, 06:59:15 PM EDT

Yep. - (admin) - Oct. 10, 2003, 07:19:31 PM EDT

The business seems to have plenty of time on its hands - (ChrisR) - (9) - Oct. 10, 2003, 01:50:13 PM EDT

Disagree with several of your premises - (jb4) - (8) - Oct. 10, 2003, 06:39:40 PM EDT

Dude - (tuberculosis) - (7) - Oct. 10, 2003, 07:15:05 PM EDT

Which reminds me - C++ is why our hardware sucks (new thread) - (tuberculosis) - Oct. 10, 2003, 07:34:32 PM EDT

rofl - (deSitter) - Oct. 10, 2003, 07:38:05 PM EDT

Heh - (jake123) - Oct. 10, 2003, 10:31:25 PM EDT

Dude... - (jb4) - (3) - Oct. 12, 2003, 11:42:07 AM EDT

Whoa, JB gets feisty! - (deSitter) - Oct. 12, 2003, 04:03:23 PM EDT

Non-sequitur - (tuberculosis) - (1) - Oct. 12, 2003, 06:42:01 PM EDT

OK, then apology accepted........;-) - (jb4) - Oct. 12, 2003, 10:39:06 PM EDT

I'd have to agree - (jake123) - (4) - Oct. 10, 2003, 12:56:42 PM EDT

Used to be a Fortran thing - (ChrisR) - (3) - Oct. 10, 2003, 02:30:03 PM EDT

Re: Used to be a Fortran thing - (deSitter) - (2) - Oct. 10, 2003, 05:59:21 PM EDT

Yep -FORTRAN for math libs rulez - (tuberculosis) - (1) - Oct. 10, 2003, 07:16:11 PM EDT

Re: Yep -FORTRAN for math libs rulez - (deSitter) - Oct. 10, 2003, 07:35:43 PM EDT

Misra C guidelines - (ChrisR) - Oct. 18, 2003, 12:47:25 AM EDT

Ob-C advice - (deSitter) - Oct. 7, 2003, 10:54:06 PM EDT

Stylistic tip - (ben_tilly) - Oct. 8, 2003, 10:26:26 AM EDT

Re: I'm having a problem grokking C - (tuberculosis) - (3) - Oct. 8, 2003, 06:55:58 PM EDT

Hehehe - (jake123) - (2) - Oct. 8, 2003, 08:47:17 PM EDT

int isdigit(int c) { return (c >='0' && c <= '9'); } - (tuberculosis) - (1) - Oct. 8, 2003, 10:21:03 PM EDT

:) - (jake123) - Oct. 9, 2003, 02:50:50 AM EDT

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