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| Date | 2014-04-01 23:54 +1100 |
| Subject | Re: unicode as valid naming symbols |
| From | Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> |
| Newsgroups | comp.lang.python |
| Message-ID | <mailman.8797.1396356845.18130.python-list@python.org> (permalink) |
On Tue, Apr 1, 2014 at 11:02 PM, Marko Rauhamaa <marko@pacujo.net> wrote:
> ========================================================================
> #include<stdio.h>
>
> int main()
> {
> int n, i = 3, count, c;
>
> printf("Enter the number of prime numbers required\n");
> scanf("%d",&n);
>
> if ( n >= 1 )
> {
> printf("First %d prime numbers are :\n",n);
> printf("2\n");
> }
>
> for ( count = 2 ; count <= n ; )
> {
> for ( c = 2 ; c <= i - 1 ; c++ )
> {
> if ( i%c == 0 )
> break;
> }
> if ( c == i )
> {
> printf("%d\n",i);
> count++;
> }
> i++;
> }
>
> return 0;
> }
> ========================================================================
> (<URL: http://www.programmingsimplified.com/c/source-code/
> c-program-for-prime-number>)
Here's my tweaked version of that:
========================================================================
#include <stdio.h>
int main()
{
int i = 3, count, factor;
printf("Enter the number of prime numbers required\n");
scanf("%d",&count);
if ( count >= 1 )
{
printf("First %d prime numbers are:\n",count);
printf("2\n");
}
while (count > 1)
{
/* This is a pretty stupid algorithm */
for ( factor = 2 ; factor <= i - 1 ; factor++ )
if ( i%factor == 0 ) break;
if ( factor == i )
{
printf("%d\n",i);
count--;
}
i++;
}
return 0;
}
========================================================================
Doesn't change the parenthesis count (other than that I dropped an
unnecessary pair of braces; some people would prefer to keep them, but
I find they're quite superfluous), but improves readability. (Why use
a for loop when you could use a simple while?) As to the question of
whether this is more or less readable than the Scheme version... I
guess that partly depends on the reader's relative familiarity with C
and Scheme, but it's crystal clear to me what the C version is doing -
and that it's doing something stupid. I don't find it more readable to
cast something as recursive; compare these two tight loops:
(let find-divisor ((c 2))
(cond
((= c i)
(format #t "~S\n" i)
(display-primes (1+ count) (1+ i)))
((= (remainder i c) 0)
(display-primes count (1+ i)))
(else
(find-divisor (1+ c)))))))))
for ( factor = 2 ; factor <= i - 1 ; factor++ )
if ( i%factor == 0 ) break;
if ( factor == i )
{
printf("%d\n",i);
count--;
}
In the first one, you start doing something, and if you don't have a
termination point, you recurse - which means you have to name this
loop as a function. In the second, you simply iterate, and then at the
end, decide whether you have the termination condition or not. It's
easy to see what the loop condition is; it's easy to see that it will
always end by one or other termination rule, and then it acts based on
that. Actually, if you switch the conditions, it would look a bit more
like the Scheme version:
for ( factor = 2 ; i%factor ; factor++ )
{
if ( factor == i )
{
printf("%d\n",i);
count--;
break;
}
}
I wouldn't say this makes the code notably more readable, and it
doesn't change the parenthesis count (apart from making more people
want to put the outer braces in - they're still technically optional,
and that was only an optional reduction in the first place), but it's
a closer equivalent and that might make comparison easier.
My view is definitely that the C version is WAY more readable than the
Scheme one.
ChrisA
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