Comments on: Sanity Program

By: Odis

Odis — Wed, 19 Jul 2006 23:14:18 +0000

Last night I converted the Sanity program (in C) to Ruby. I will post the code when I get a chance. I didn’t change too much, but you might be able to see how small-scale translating between languages works.

Ruby shaved some 30 lines off the code, though the C version could be that much smaller depending on programmer preferences (I like my curly’s to have their own lines).

I should also note that the Sanity program is an example of relatively bad programming. It uses a lot of defined constants, many of which could be avoided in favor of user input or file input.

By: Odis

Odis — Wed, 19 Jul 2006 01:16:37 +0000

All code posted here is public domain unless otherwise noted.

By: Nicholas E. May

Nicholas E. May — Tue, 18 Jul 2006 21:51:53 +0000

This inspired a friend of mine to attempt to write a “sanity program” in Ruby.

Weeird. I had that idea last night and was just looking this post (and the code) over and tripped across that line—which I missed in my past readings (well, skimmings). I think it’ll be another week or two before I give it a go, though. Maybe you could include some license information with the code?

By: Odis

Odis — Sat, 03 Jun 2006 17:40:13 +0000

You could make it fully autonomous and remove the getche()/getchar() calls. In general I made it so it would run quickly (rather than infinitely).

One thing you might consider adding is a counter to see how many “Woot, sanity” prints you get.

By: Nicholas E. May

Nicholas E. May — Sat, 03 Jun 2006 01:53:37 +0000

You were right about getche(), but it worked fine once I did a query replace. I guess I thought the program was interactive, so it was’n as much fun as I thought it would be. Except now I get to go mucking about through source code! Hehehe.