Re: C Contest...
From: Wiseguy (noone_at_uber.usachoice.net)
Date: 03/20/05
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Date: 19 Mar 2005 20:19:55 -0600
Aaron <adenunzio@_hotmail.com> scribbled on the stall wall:
> A long time ago my brother and I had a contest to see who could write the
> smallest card shuffler. I won with 316 bytes. (keystrokes). Below is the
> source.
>
> Can anybody beat it? Or any suggestions. I realize this code is very
> inefficient. Notice no randomize, and it does retain the card order in the d[]
> array.
>
> Comments please!!!!
Sometimes smaller is not better...I'd be more concerned with correctness
of code and efficiency than I would be about size of the function. After all,
it's not like it is still necessary to cram a program into a 16KB ram
chunk in a trash-80.
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