Landon Curt Noll
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Brian Westley (Merlyn LeRoy on usenet)
DigiBoard, Inc.
1026 Blair Ave.
St. Paul, MN 55104
US
http://www.westley.org
To build:
make all
To run:
./westley number
INABIAF - it's not a bug it's a feature :-)
This entry will very likely crash or do something else without an arg.
This program will enter an infinite loop if input is not a number > 0.
Try:
./westley 1
./westley 2
./westley 3
./westley 5
Alternate code:
If you have an old enough compiler try and to see how C has changed over the years:
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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