DFS <nospam@dfs.com> wrote at 18:40 this Sunday (GMT):
> On 7/14/2024 11:00 AM, candycanearter07 wrote:
>> DFS <nospam@dfs.com> wrote at 21:29 this Saturday (GMT):
>>> On 7/12/2024 5:15 PM, Lameass Larry Piet wrote:
>
>>>> Holy godzilla mutherfuckers!
>>>>
>>>> Hasn't this infinite idiot ever heard of GNU flex?
>>>
>>> Why tf would anyone EVER waste their time and use such GuhNoo crapware
>>> just to read a set of numbers from a file? It's a few lines of simple code.
>>>
>>> AND, even though my original file format is integers separated by spaces
>>> (shown for compactness in the post), my code works unchanged if they're
>>> separated by line-feeds.
>>>
>>>
>>> double idiot
>>
>> Does it work if the numbers are separated by alphabet chars?
>
> No. Just spaces or linefeeds.

Oh, alright.

>>>> Even a C newbie would seriously consider pre-processing
>>>> the input file to get it into proper shape. But not
>>>> this insuperable dunce.
>>>
>>> Who needs to "pre-process" a set of integers?
>>>
>>> triple idiot
>>
>> How would you even pre-process that?
>
>
> Feeb will find a way, then claim it's the "only way".
>
> Since he apparently can't write 5 lines of code to import the data,
> he'll claim 'GuhNoo flex' is required, and make a huge mess of everything.
>
> Here on cola we've been dealing with his crazed bragging and
> excuse-making and lack of programming skills for 9 years. So I'm
> serious when I say don't pay attention to his idiocy.
>
> If you have a C question, comp.lang.c is great. Those guys are absolute
> masters.

I think I'm subscribed to that newsgroup, they have interesting chats
there.

>>>> Any moron so totally inept in programming cannot ever
>>>> be admitted into a serious discussion of GNU/Linux.
>>>
>>> You labeled this double-time shit-code of yours "wonderfully perfect and
>>> highly efficient":
>>>
>>>
>>> /* free all strarray elements */
>>> for(i = 0; i < rec_count; i++) {
>>> free(data[i]->field1);
>>> free(data[i]->field2);
>>> free(data[i]->field3);
>>> free(data[i]);
>>> i++;
>>> }
>>
>> To be fair, it is a fine way to free data structures like that. I know
>> I've used something like this before.
>
> Take a close look. I doubt you used his inane technique.
>
> He said it was 'perfect' but it really wasn't.

Yeah, I didn't notice the double i++. I definitely have done a loop thru
a array freeing fields of it though.

>>> int compareint (const void * a, const void * b)
>>> {
>>> if (*(int*)a > *(int*)b) return 1;
>>> else if (*(int*)a < *(int*)b) return -1;
>>> else return 0;
>>> }
>>
>> Why aren't you just using int pointer arguments here?
>
>
> Cast to const void* is part of the qsort() prototype:
>
> https://cplusplus.com/reference/cstdlib/qsort/
> https://en.cppreference.com/w/c/algorithm/qsort

OH, right. I haven't used qsort in a while..and I think I just
dereferenced it to different variables at the top to make it look nicer.

><snip code>
>
>
>> looks pretty good!
>
> Thanks. It was fun to keep at it until I got it right.
>
> The results of my code should match the results at
>
> https://www.calculatorsoup.com/calculators/statistics/descriptivestatistics.php
>
>
> Give it a run if you have a minute, and see if you enjoy it. It was the
> better part of 3 days to write it in C, then making a python port took
> about 2 hours.

Pretty cool ^^
--
user <candycane> is generated from /dev/urandom

DFS <nospam@dfs.com> wrote:

>> I end up appreciating your contributions
>> and finding him to be offending because he goes negative on everyone,
>> just total arrogance, but I will let him imagine that COLA is so big
>> and important, because there is truth to it, and the OS wars are one
>> reason for it.
>
>No woman and a lack of IT and financial success has made him angry and
>insane.

It is amusing that he imagines he's more techie than we are, he's just
a purist about the experience being "open source", so he has to act
like with his right-click menu as a way to access apps he's getting
some imagined benefit that is thrown away by using Mint.

--
Joel W. Crump

Amendment XIV
Section 1.

[...] No state shall make or enforce any law which shall
abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the
United States; nor shall any state deprive any person of
life, liberty, or property, without due process of law;
nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal
protection of the laws.

Dobbs rewrites this, it is invalid precedent. States are
liable for denying needed abortions, e.g. TX.

On 7/13/2024 4:17 PM, Ludicrous Larry Pietraskiewicz wrote:

> On Sat, 13 Jul 2024 14:10:03 -0000 (UTC), candycanearter07 wrote:
>
>>
>> Well, they could be trying to process an arbitrary file.
>>
>
> Nope. If you read the idiotic DooFuS posts the imbecile wants
> to read space separated (i.e. no LF) integers.
>
> Only the retarded DooFuS could have produced such an inane
> storage format.

You sure about that, bozo?

https://www.random.org/integer-sets/?sets=1&num=1000&min=1&max=2000&seqnos=on&order=index&format=html&rnd=new

> But regardless, flex can rip through it in one pass.
> The fact
> that the DooFuS missed that absolutely elementary point only
> solidifies his reputation as a moronic programming dilettante.

stfu about that ridiculous, time-wasting, inappropriate 'GuhNoo flex'.

Nobody but you cares about your silly GuhNoo crutch, which you depend on
because you're incompetent.

Also, there's absolutely nothing wrong with making one pass thru a
file/dataset for one reason, then another pass for a different reason.

For example, finding and printing the mode(s) of a dataset is a fair amt
of trouble to do in one pass. You can prove it to yourself by writing
your own all-new C code to do it. No plagiarizing allowed.

See you never, "REAL PROGRAMMER".

> Of course, the overall message is that the DooFuS, who advocates
> Microslop, is continually shown to be digitally incompetent and
> thus his opinions are utterly and totally worthless.

Your lies and brags are what's worthless.

"I am heavily involved in virtually ALL AREAS of contemporary
computing" - Feeb

What a pile of hooey. Sitting in your room reading a wiki entry and
eating gummi bears isn't "heavily involved in".

>> Also, I haven't really heard of GNU Flex, but if it's so useful, I might
>> try and learn it.

candycane, don't take ANY advice about programming or IT or software
from the incompetent, dbl-talking Feeb. Just tune the clown out and let
me deal with him.

> (F)lex has been around since the very beginning of programming.
> Why have you not heard of it?
>
> Most "programmers" today are not actually programmers.

Quit calling yourself a programmer; you don't even understand what one
is. Your definition changes from day to day and post to post.

Left side of piehole:
"Programming is NOT coding."

Right side of piehole:
"C is the ultimate programming language"