Re: Damnit Jim, I'm a Writer, not a Programmer II: The Wrath of K ahn

[Peter <pnewman1 -at- home -dot- com>]

Paul Sinasohn wrote:
> 
> Peter wrote:
> 
> > for you non-programmers. try to decipher the meaning of a statement such
> > as
> 
> > fprintf(urt, "%f.6 %s " , dr, (i=0;1+%r\d;++i));
> 
> Hmmm... well, it probably has to do something with printing something,
> and maybe it is a file.
> Whatever is getting printed, it's going to be printed (or numbered?) in
> sets, counted by integers.
> There's a semi-colon at the end of the statement, so it's complete in
> and of itself.
> 
> How did I do??
> 

Pretty good. It is a syntacally incorrect c statement, with an
inadvertent typo, to print information to a file, while a condition
exists. My only reason for posting was to illustrate that while some
programs can be deciphered, one should have at least a nodding
acquaintance with the particular language, before attempting to do so.
the C++ equivalent statement would look totally different. :-) Have a
nice weekend all.


-- 
Peter
Mailto:peternew -at- optonline -dot- net

Adapting old programs to fit new machines
usually means adapting new machines to
behave like old ones.

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