Path: csiph.com!eternal-september.org!feeder.eternal-september.org!nntp.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Keith Thompson Newsgroups: comp.lang.c Subject: Re: Sort of trivial code challenge - may be interesting to you anyway Date: Sun, 08 Mar 2026 13:19:21 -0700 Organization: None to speak of Lines: 20 Message-ID: <874imqysza.fsf@example.invalid> References: <10n80sc$3soe4$1@dont-email.me> <86v7feei2e.fsf@linuxsc.com> <10o53k6$1i0ef$2@dont-email.me> <86ms0peby6.fsf@linuxsc.com> <10ockdh$3qpk6$1@dont-email.me> <10ocrjn$3qpk6$2@dont-email.me> <10od64s$3qpk6$4@dont-email.me> <86ikb9bmtw.fsf@linuxsc.com> <10oem5t$n5hk$1@dont-email.me> <86o6kz9zng.fsf@linuxsc.com> <10oi72k$1rss6$1@dont-email.me> <10oid0u$1u9aa$2@dont-email.me> <10ok1sl$2e7mc$1@dont-email.me> <10ok405$2f6sn$1@dont-email.me> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Injection-Date: Sun, 08 Mar 2026 20:19:22 +0000 (UTC) Injection-Info: dont-email.me; posting-host="5c88fe53569b4c210fbfbf7e6275a6a7"; logging-data="2856651"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX1+qfxDd3Q7vQXWFD0UNK8LK" User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Cancel-Lock: sha1:zP4FVW5s49sfaU2tk44wYyajhuM= sha1:vY1qKycXPCNdmeJKlpR3Iisv6EE= Xref: csiph.com comp.lang.c:396872 Bart writes: [...] > Funny though how TR castigated me for not offering a C solution, but > his solution is one I would not class as C code, as it only uses a > subset of the language and in a weird manner (a bit like some of my > generated C which is not meant to be human-readable). [...] Nonsense. Of course Tim's code was C code. It compiles without error with a conforming C compiler, and does not depend on any extensions. Practically all C programs only use a subset of the language. Classifying C code that you don't like as "not C" is absurd. Your code, on the other hand, was not written in C at all. -- Keith Thompson (The_Other_Keith) Keith.S.Thompson+u@gmail.com void Void(void) { Void(); } /* The recursive call of the void */