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From: Tom Culliton <culliton@clark.net>
To: culliton@clark.net, haahr@netcom.com
Cc: TimTroyR@ionet.net, rc@hawkwind.utcs.toronto.edu
Subject: Re: 99 bottles in an rc shell script.
Date: Thu, 1 May 1997 13:14:56 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <199705011714.NAA07547@clark.net> (raw)

> Why enumerate all the numbers?  Why use some external program?  Peano
> arithmetic is more than sufficient.

True, but the way you did it also takes an extra loop.  However I was 
thinking about using it to generate the output backwards, inserting each
line at the head of the list, then echoing the whole list at once. 8-o   
Fortunately it was late and I went to bed before try that. ;-)

Tom


             reply	other threads:[~1997-05-01 21:02 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
1997-05-01 17:14 Tom Culliton [this message]
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
1997-05-01 21:13 Mark K. Gardner
1997-05-01 19:28 Byron Rakitzis
1997-05-01  5:02 Tom Culliton
1997-05-01  4:03 Tom Culliton
1997-05-01  1:29 rsc
1997-04-30 22:26 Tom Culliton
1997-05-01  1:57 ` David Luyer
1997-05-01 16:33 ` Paul Haahr

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