Path: csiph.com!eternal-september.org!reader02.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Tim Rentsch Newsgroups: comp.lang.c Subject: Re: Programming exercise/challenge Date: Thu, 10 Dec 2020 00:02:51 -0800 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 24 Message-ID: <868sa63x78.fsf@linuxsc.com> References: <86wnxwkyol.fsf@linuxsc.com> <86r1o1hxtn.fsf@linuxsc.com> <87lfe9jauk.fsf@bsb.me.uk> <861rfz5jgn.fsf@linuxsc.com> <87zh2ndwbe.fsf@bsb.me.uk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Injection-Info: reader02.eternal-september.org; posting-host="e123793f93e194ce9596f9b3807e7692"; logging-data="25145"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX19Jr8kaf6ZLl02fkBBNu0u9IeaRQ6TyKRM=" User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.4 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:OI2yH9xjIUIrk4ZcbQg7ZiMDVKM= sha1:gTq5H5ZuSmXWoPYzb4zqhHzsozU= Xref: csiph.com comp.lang.c:157181 Ben Bacarisse writes: > Tim Rentsch writes: > >> Ben Bacarisse writes: >> >>> Tim Rentsch writes: >>> >>>> Incidentally, the problem statement isn't something I just made up >>>> for the newsgroup, but is a simplified version of a utility >>>> program that is used as part of a larger toolkit. >>> >>> Which utility is that? >> >> It's one small piece of a larger C development environment that >> I wrote about twenty years ago. > > Ah, that explains it to some extent. I was wondering if others had > arrived at this exact specification. I guess it's worth noting that how the program should behave was chosen after the fact, not before, to provide what was needed in the larger context. In any case though the credit, responsibility, and blame are all mine and mine alone.