Re: Calculate percentages

From: Tony Lawrence (foo_at_pcunix.com)
Date: 10/26/05 

Date: Wed, 26 Oct 2005 08:16:28 -0400

Brian K. White wrote:
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Jean-Pierre Radley" <jpr@jpr.com>
> Newsgroups: comp.unix.sco.misc
> To: <distro@jpr.com>
> Sent: Sunday, October 23, 2005 6:10 PM
> Subject: Re: Calculate percentages
>
>
>
>>Dion typed (on Sun, Oct 23, 2005 at 01:33:13PM -0700):
>>| I am a beginner in UNIX and I want to write a shell script calculating
>>| the proportion of one-line comments in any C++ program. Could anyone
>>| help me please? Thanks!
>>
>>
>>I daresay you haven't the least interest or purpose in knowing how many
>>comments in a program are one-liners.
>>
>>Occam's razor tells me that your instructor has asked you to write such a
>>script. Does your instructor approve of your getting help from us?
>>Would that affect your grade?
>
>
> Well, to be honest,
>
> There is a comment syntax for single lines that is valid in c++ that is not
> valid in c.
> And it would be both a simple "get report", and possibly legitimately
> useful, to find only those lines that would be invalid c syntax.
>
> But I won't divulge any more hint than I already have in case you are right,
> because it looks that way to me too.
> Besides, I've already seen his next post and someone apparently never
> figured out the kindergarden basic life lesson yet that you catch more flies
> with honey.
> Maybe he feels this makes me an jerk, but in the end, I know the answer, and
> he's dissuaded me from being generous with it. ;)
>
> I only wish Tony hadn't sabotaged our plot to keep him in the dark forever
> muhahahahaha.....

Well, I like to try to give the benefit of the doubt. If he's a useless
twit, he won't get anything from what I told him, but if not, maybe
he'll really dig in and learn something. 

-- 
Tony Lawrence
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