Re: How feasible would this programme be to write?

From: KLinZ (klinz_at_NOSPAMMERTSzenobits.com)
Date: 12/10/03 

Date: Wed, 10 Dec 2003 13:47:18 +0100

Peter wrote:

>> It's simple:
>>
>> for(i=0; ;i++) {
>> convert i to a 'number' with base 26 and add the value of 'A' to
>> each digit
>> }
>
> And then, with a red face and a huge piece of humble pie, explain to
> the customer why this fails on an EBCDIC based system.

True, true. Next time I will tag it with <ASCII assumed>

> And, while
> you're at it, explain to the customer why this only prints one
> character at a time instead of combinations of characters.

Depends on your interpration of 'convert i to a number'. 

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