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
next reply other threads:[~1997-05-01 21:02 UTC|newest]
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1997-05-01 17:14 Tom Culliton [this message]
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1997-05-01 21:13 Mark K. Gardner
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1997-05-01 5:02 Tom Culliton
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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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