Cody Boone Ferguson
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Brian Westley (Merlyn LeRoy on usenet)
DigiBoard, Inc.
1026 Blair Ave.
St. Paul, MN 55104
USA
http://www.westley.org
To build:
make all
To run:
./westley number
Cody Boone Ferguson fixed this for modern
systems. It had 1s in places for a short int which was changed to just 1.
Since it's instructional to see the differences he has provided an alternate
version with the original code. See below. Thank you Cody for your assistance!
NOTE: this entry will segfault without an arg and will enter an infinite loop if input is not a positive number.
Try:
./westley 1
./westley 2
./westley 3
./westley 5
Alternate code:
To see how C has changed over the years Cody provided the original source in westley.alt.c. If you have an old enough compiler try:
make alt
Use westley.alt as you would westley.
Judges' remarks:
If you would rather "Daisy" someone other than Westley, rename the program as needed. :-)
Read each block of code as if it were a piece of correspondence. For example, the first block of code would read:
charlie,
doubletime me, OXFACE!
not interested, get out
mainly die, charly, *die*
signed charlotte
The original source had control-L's after each code block. To make it easier on news readers, we converted each control-L to a blank line.
Author's remarks:
This is a "Picking the Daisy" simulation. Now, instead of mangling a daisy, simply run this program with the number of petals desired as the argument.
This is a good counter-example to peoples' complaints that C doesn't have an "English-like" syntax.
Lint complains about everything - null effect, xxx may be used before set, statement not reached, return(e) and return. Lint dumps core on some systems. My personal favorite lint complaint is
"warning: eroticism unused in function main".
Also obviously, (char)lotte and (char*)lie are incompatible types...
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