Re: Word-processing challenge anyone?

William M. Klein wrote:

> My COBOL program does get 12691 for "unique" words (when I treat
hyphenated
> words as TWO separate words), However, I am only getting +789715
input words.

I have not seen your source code yet due to Google latency, but I
suspect that you are not counting the word 'book' that appears in the
first 8 columns. It appears 66 times. That added to your total gives
the correct number of total words.

On 13 Feb 2005 20:18:13 -0800, Richard wrote:
 
> that was the goal.
>
> With these types of 'challenge' it is likely that the goal is simply
> 'my language is better than yours'.  Responding even with a program
> that is only fractionally slower or has marginally more lines or only
> slightly confuses the setter (compared to the one that they wrote
> themselves) simply proves (in the setter's mind) that theirs really is
> better.

Ah, you've seen some of XXXXwit Frank's posts already then?

> Unless you can blow them away with a 3 line program that runs 10 times
> faster and could be understood by a 5 year old then there is probably
> no point in feeding their ego.

Even then it wouldn't work as he'd change the goalposts.

--
Tim C.

XXXXwit Frank already has changed the subgoals. He now wants *two* arrays.

"Tim Challenger" <tim.challenger@aon.at> wrote in message
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> On 13 Feb 2005 20:18:13 -0800, Richard wrote:
> 
>
> Ah, you've seen some of XXXXwit Frank's posts already then?
> 
>
> Even then it wouldn't work as he'd change the goalposts.
>
> --
> Tim C.