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Date: Sat, 16 Jun 2007 15:58:07 +1000
From: "Bruce Ellis" <bruce.ellis@gmail.com>
To: "Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs" <9fans@cse.psu.edu>
Subject: Re: [9fans] a quick and simple minded study of configure.
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i've asked this before .. who are we hiding the imformation from?
you reap what you do sow (grunt).  built your house on sand?

brucee

On 6/16/07, Skip Tavakkolian <9nut@9netics.com> wrote:
> > I'm pretty sure I'm not good at it yet but I always found this one
> > line. "word counter" impressive.
> >
> >  std::distance(std::istream_iterator<std::string>(std::cin),
> > std::istream_iterator<std::string>());
>
> it is impressive that you typed that on a blackberry!
>
> it's not short, if you count the class implementation.  it doesn't
> convey the idea - the solution is not understood unless you
> understand each piece.
>
> i think what Ron is bringing up is having/learning the ability to
> see through layers of filters to the exact need and providing a
> design that is just the right distance between "pie in the sky" and
> "failure of vision".
>
>