Author:

• Name: Brian Westley
  Location: US - United States of America (United States)

To build:

    make all

There is an alternate version for those with an old enough compiler or for those who wish to see how C changed over the years. See Alternate code below.

Bugs and (Mis)features:

The current status of this entry is:

STATUS: INABIAF - please DO NOT fix

For more detailed information see 1990/westley in bugs.html.

To use:

    ./westley <number>

The number should be greater than 0.

Try:

    ./try.sh

Alternate code:

The alternate code is provided to show how C changed.

Alternate build:

If you have an old enough compiler or if you want to see how C changed over the years:

    make alt

Alternate use:

Assuming that westley.alt compiles:

    ./westley.alt <number>

Judges’ remarks:

If you would rather “Daisy” someone other than Westley, rename the program as needed. :-)

Read each block of code as if it were a piece of correspondence. For example, the first block of code would read:

    charlie,
            doubletime me, OXFACE!
            not interested, get out
            mainly die, charly, *die*
                    signed charlotte

The original source had control-L’s after each code block. To make it easier on news readers, we converted each control-L to a blank line.

Author’s remarks:

This is a “Picking the Daisy” simulation. Now, instead of mangling a daisy, simply run this program with the number of petals desired as the argument.

This is a good counter-example to peoples’ complaints that C doesn’t have an “English-like” syntax.

Lint complains about everything - null effect, xxx may be used before set, statement not reached, return(e) and return. Lint dumps core on some systems. My personal favorite lint complaint is

warning: eroticism unused in function main.

Also obviously, (char)lotte and (char*)lie are incompatible types…

Primary files

• westley.c - entry source code
• Makefile - entry Makefile
• westley.alt.c - alternate source code
• westley.orig.c - original source code
• try.sh - script to try entry

Secondary files

• 1990_westley.tar.bz2 - download entry tarball
• README.md - markdown source for this web page
• .entry.json - entry summary and manifest in JSON
• .gitignore - list of files that should not be committed under git
• .path - directory path from top level directory
• index.html - this web page

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