On Mon, Nov 06, 2006 at 10:26:53PM -0600, Russell L. Harris wrote: > Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > >On Mon, Nov 06, 2006 at 01:34:30PM -0800, Steve Lamb wrote: > >> Depends on what you define as elegant. > > > >when I was learning to program (mid 80's), we considered anything > >outside of brute force to be elegant. Also, anything non-obvious was > >also considered elegant. Anything that used a side-effect was NOT > >considered elegant because you couldn't tell from reading the code > >what it was actually doing (one reason I struggle with C). > > > >The idea was to be short, sweet, not-brute-forced, and caused one to > >say "ah ha!" after a couple read throughs. > > > > > The ultimate in elegance is Forth. And the ultimate in Forth, circa > 1980, was polyForth.
Can you give us an example of Forth, preferably that would do the string parse here? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
