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Subject: Re: Any reason to use C?

Author: Uri Blass

Date: 08:23:39 07/30/03

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On July 29, 2003 at 16:52:43, Tord Romstad wrote:

>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.

You seem to be able to do better than me by understanding it.

Uri




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