<I'd appreciate it. I frequently teach C programming classes. I've mentioned to my students how C is sometimes called a "write only" language because you can write a program that can't be read.

I've been a C++ programmer for an awfully long time it seems. . . I dabled in pascal, basic sicne elementary school. Then I learned so much C++ that I consider myself native to it. However this summer I learned perl. . . talk about unreadable line noise!!! nothing but the unlimte slacker language IMHO. It helped me appreciate C++, I NEVER thought I would miss local variables so much until I attempted recursion in perl.

Yours is a good example. I also tell them I'll flunk them out of the class if they turn in a program like the one you listed. Still, it'd be a good example for the class.

it seems to be the in thing to remove all the lines in programs and make them look like that, I dunno why. . . I see it all the time.

-Justin Kelly