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From: Rainer Weikusat <rweikusat@talktalk.net>
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Subject: Re: Command Languages Versus Programming Languages
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cross@spitfire.i.gajendra.net (Dan Cross) writes:
> Rainer Weikusat  <rweikusat@talktalk.net> wrote:
>>cross@spitfire.i.gajendra.net (Dan Cross) writes:
>>
>>[...]
>>
>>> In any event, this seems simpler than what you posted:
>>>
>>> #include <stddef.h>
>>> #include <stdio.h>
>>> #include <stdlib.h>
>>>
>>> int
>>> main(int argc, char *argv[])
>>> {
>>>         if (argc != 2) {
>>>                 fprintf(stderr, "Usage: matchd <str>\n");
>>>                 return EXIT_FAILURE;
>>>         }
>>>
>>>         for (const char *p = argv[1]; *p != '\0'; p++)
>>>                 if ('0' <= *p && *p <= '9')
>>>                         return EXIT_SUCCESS;
>>>
>>>         return EXIT_FAILURE;
>>> }
>>
>>It's not only 4 lines longer but in just about every individual aspect
>>syntactically more complicated and more messy and functionally more
>>clumsy.
>
> That's a lot of opinion, and not particularly well-founded
> opinion at that, given that your code was incorrect to begin
> with.

That's not at all an opinion but an observation. My opinion on this is
that this is either a poor man's attempt at winning an obfuscation
context or - simpler - exemplary bad code.