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Subject: Re: Any reason to use C?

Author: Tord Romstad

Date: 13:52:43 07/29/03

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On July 29, 2003 at 15:40:50, Dieter Buerssner wrote:

>On July 29, 2003 at 15:31:11, Tord Romstad wrote:
>
>>This is getting increasingly off-topic, but I cannot resist the temptation
>>to post the cutest little C program I have ever seen.  It computes an
>>approximation of pi by calculating its own area.  :-)
>
>I know that program. Really amazing. And very clever. One can even understand
>it after a while.

Yes, one can understand how it works, but I never understood how people get
such ideas.  It is of course an entirely useless skill (much like programming
chess), but I still wish I could do it.

>On www.iocc.org, one can even find chess related programs.

Thanks to you and Dann for this link!  I have seen several of the programs
before, but the Web site was new and unknown to me.

Tord



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