Subj : Re: any function to handle this kind of counting? To : comp.programming From : Rob Thorpe Date : Mon Aug 01 2005 06:22 am > I have no idea what the OPs background is. For me, I know the following > numbers of people who are at least somewhat familiar with the following > languages: > > 10 C++ > 10 C > 7 OCaml > 3 Java > 2 Perl > 1 Python > 1 Ruby You must know different folks to me. I've never met another programmer who knows OCaml or any ML derivative. > Had I written my solution in C it would have been incomprehensible. There's no reason why a solution in C should be incomprehensible. Verbose yes, incomprehensible no. .