Landon Curt Noll
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While not strictly necessary, replacing the two ASCII tab characters in the markdown copyright comment makes it easier to detect problematic TAB indentation within markdown files. After this commit, only 90 markdown files have leading ASCII TAB characters. And again, while not strictly necessary, we can consider running expand on those 90 markdown files to see what effect that might have on the HTML files they produce. Replace leading ASCII TAB characters with multiples of 8 ASCII SPACE characters (the default action of the `expand(1)` tool) might have an negative effect on some HTML formatting where **hack-a-round** formatting was attempted to fix broken indentation caused by problematic ASCII TAB characters. Think of this as a baseline for evaluating leading TAB characters within markdown files. TODO: Consider either using `expand(1)` to replace leading ASCII TAB characters with multiples of 8 ASCII SPACE characters AND/OR modifying the appropriate `bin` tool to convert leading ASCII TAB characters into multiples of 8 ASCII SPACE characters.
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To build:
make all
There is an alternate version for those with an old enough compiler or for those who wish to see how C changed over the years. See Alternate code below.
Bugs and (Mis)features:
The current status of this entry is:
STATUS: INABIAF - please **DO NOT** fix
For more detailed information see 1990/westley in bugs.html.
To use:
./westley <number>
The number should be greater than 0.
Try:
./try.sh
Alternate code:
The alternate code is provided to show how C changed.
Alternate build:
If you have an old enough compiler or if you want to see how C changed over the years:
make alt
Alternate use:
Assuming that westley.alt compiles:
./westley.alt <number>
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...