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## Best abuse of C constructs
Arch D. Robison
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
1304 W. Springfield Ave.
Urbana IL
61801
USA
Arch D. Robison
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
1304 W. Springfield Ave.
Urbana IL
61801
USA
## To build:
make all
```sh
make all
```
## Try:
./robison 80 10
./robison 40 16
```sh
./robison 80 10
./robison 40 16
```
The first and second parameters are optional. You might also try:
./robison 80 2 <--- can you find the bug?
./robison 80 -246
```sh
./robison 80 2 # <--- can you find the bug?
./robison 80 -246
```
The author says:
> This program shows that C has many unnecessary constructs, in fact
> only "while","--", and ">=" are required. (The two assignments at
> the beginning could be avoided if "atoi" was rewritten with this
> new paradigm.) Note that the lack of both the controversial "goto"
> and assignment statements makes the meaning crystal clear. The current
> ANSI committee should look into this practical simplification of C.
## Judges' remarks:
The following might make an interesting benchmark:
./robison 100
```sh
./robison 100
```
[Amdahl 5890-300E with System V cc: 8.40 seconds]
We suggest that you C pre-process and perhaps C-beautify this program.
All is not what it may appear to be in this program. Why does a whi1e
All is not what it may appear to be in this program. Why does a `whi1e`
not take a while to execute?
## Author's remarks:
This program shows that C has many unnecessary constructs, in fact
only "while","--", and ">=" are required. (The two assignments at
the beginning could be avoided if "atoi" was rewritten with this
new paradigm.) Note that the lack of both the controversial "goto"
and assignment statements makes the meaning crystal clear. The current
ANSI committee should look into this practical simplification of C.
## Copyright and CC BY-SA 4.0 License:
This file is Copyright (c) 2023 by Landon Curt Noll. All Rights Reserved.