Subj : Re: Syntax, style, the infinite monkey theorum and coding
To   : comp.programming
From : Ed Prochak
Date : Mon Aug 22 2005 12:50 pm


Chris Sonnack wrote:
> gswork@mailcity.com writes:
>
> >> how about a C program with a seven page while() loop where the
> >> condition on the while() loop was seven full lines long (where full
> >> means about 70 characters per line, not counting whitespace)?
> >
> > I like the idea that a condition can be seven lines long!  Now
> > that's a condition!
>
> I wonder if there wouldn't have been some way to abstract away some
> of the predicates into functions.  Even if there were a lot of
> predicates,

You're on the right tract Chris. It was a single application that
SHOULD have been coded as three applications.  Sadly (or luckily), I
left before I had a chance to rewrite the whole thing.

But it definitely had that monkey code look.

   ed

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