Date: Mon, 01 Jan 2007 22:38:43 -0500
To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at KeithLynch.net>,
   WSFA members <WSFAlist at KeithLynch.net>
From: "Mike B." <omni at omniphile.com>
Subject: [WSFA] Re: Ex-presidents of the US
Reply-To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at KeithLynch.net>

At 1/1/2007 10:01 PM, Keith F. Lynch wrote:
>ronkean at juno.com wrote:
>
> > What programming language did you use,
>
>Plain old C.

Probably would have been simpler in Perl... ;-)

>I made it very simple, which is also how I was able to do it so
>quickly.  Having been raised in the days when CPU time was precious,
>I'm always tempted to spend hours making a program more efficient,
>even if it only saves milliseconds of CPU time.  But instead I wrote
>this in the simplest possible way.

Which is best depends on a number of factors, not the least of which
is the cost of software maintenance these days.  For you that's time,
not money, but there's a conversion factor for that equivalency. ;-)

-- Mike B.
--
Money talks....it says good-bye.