Path: csiph.com!eternal-september.org!feeder.eternal-september.org!nntp.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Tim Rentsch Newsgroups: comp.lang.c Subject: Re: Sort of trivial code challenge - may be interesting to you anyway Date: Thu, 05 Mar 2026 13:54:21 -0800 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 16 Message-ID: <868qc6c582.fsf@linuxsc.com> References: <10n80sc$3soe4$1@dont-email.me> <86v7feei2e.fsf@linuxsc.com> <20260302110720.00007698@yahoo.com> <86qzq2e1u3.fsf@linuxsc.com> <10o4ilk$1bo87$1@dont-email.me> <86ikbdebo8.fsf@linuxsc.com> <10o7he5$2cb17$1@dont-email.me> <10o9c5p$2ul3p$2@dont-email.me> <10o9g1b$303he$1@dont-email.me> <10o9hh8$3077t$2@dont-email.me> <20260304192711.00003795@yahoo.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Injection-Date: Thu, 05 Mar 2026 21:54:24 +0000 (UTC) Injection-Info: dont-email.me; posting-host="e10200766ffc466ebfe6a0b9c1907eec"; logging-data="177772"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX189Umtli8VaxDgMsER3ml89FzJ4fsgkfKc=" User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.4 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:XH4a/mjl7YsdhmdAxN48axjZqgw= sha1:UcJ3Mz3WuRn3MG477t5otsgzybg= Xref: csiph.com comp.lang.c:396797 Michael S writes: > On Wed, 4 Mar 2026 10:02:02 -0500 > DFS wrote: > >> To my eye, printing sequential numbers or names by column-row looks >> better than by row-column. > > Were you programming in Fortran in your youth? I did program in Fortran in my youth (and not just my youth), but I prefer the "down the rows first" ordering independent of Fortran, because I find it easier to look for things. Like 'ls' output. Choice of C-style or Fortran-style multidimensional arrays is another kettle of fish entirely.