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From: uh@bsiao.UUCP (Uul Haanstra)
Newsgroups: net.sources
Subject: Re: atype.c & ctype.c -- simple text statistics
Message-ID: <194@bsiao.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 28-Oct-86 06:36:03 EST
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Posted: Tue Oct 28 06:36:03 1986
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> Keywords: ctype, ascii, classification
> 
> The following two short programs calculate simple text statistics,
> and occasionally come in handy; I'm sending these out in net.sources
> in the hopes of garnering useful comments on them.  They tend to
> be useful in debugging from time to time.
> 
This surely is a joke. I remember, my first Fortran program had to
count character frequencies. Then later on, my first Algol and my first
Pascal did the same (actually, my first Pascal program made the 
Pascal triangle, but that is neither here nor there).
But this is ridiculous, now the net is being swamped by this sort
of 'utilities'. Useful in debugging it says. In debugging what?
The compiler? The disks (I wrote 256 a's and 321 b's, and now I only get
255 a's)? If I want to know what's in a file, I look at it, or use
od, or even sed or awk if I need a filter.
> 
> A future release (in mod.sources) will include appropriate manual pages,
> and whatever enhancements result from comments made by readers.
> 
Please don't. 

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