Thread: Merry Christmas!

Originally Posted by MutantJohn

What country are you from?

Japan, probably. Of course, that 24 December is more the culmination of the Christmas festive season in Japan than 25 December does not change the fact that 25 December is still Christmas day, so Elysia is either trying to be funny by playing on the different custom or is simply ignorant. I trust that it is the former

This whole thread has been mostly me having fun by being silly
Some celebrate giving presents on 24th, some on 25th, some don't have christmas at all. To me, christmas is only the 24th because that's the only day that's remotely special to me. Giving presents is something special. The rest of christmas just isn't very interesting to me.

The world has supported something called "Unicode" for a long time now... I suggest you use it.

Originally Posted by Elysia

The world has supported something called "Unicode" for a long time now... I suggest you use it.

Unicode without a font only makes gibberish.

Japan, probably.

Not necessarily. I've been told he lives elsewhere. He just likes anime. A lot.

Originally Posted by whiteflags

Unicode without a font only makes gibberish.

The point was to use a unicode font that can represent all characters in unicode, or most of them.

We change gifts on midnight. Technically already on the 25th. But I remember when I was a kid and my parents used to do it in the morning of the 25th. It was damn hard to sleep that night...

Originally Posted by Yarin

There is no such font.

But that's okay, most multilingual fonts are ugly anyway.

All you really need is Webdings.

10 / 10

Best font ever.

Originally Posted by Alpo

Since it's programmer's Christmas, I thought I had better begin the atheist programmer's war on Christmas.

Code:

#include <stdio.h>
#include <stdlib.h>
#include <string.h>

int compare( const void*, const void* );

int compare( const void* a, const void* b )
{
    return *(char*)a - *(char*)b;
}

int main()
{
    char szSanta[] = "Santa";
    char szSatan[] = "Satan";

    qsort( szSanta, strlen( szSanta ), sizeof( char ), compare );
    qsort( szSatan, strlen( szSatan ), sizeof( char ), compare );

    if( !strcmp( szSanta, szSatan ) )
    {
        printf("Santa is the DEVIL!\n");
    }
    else
    {
        printf("Tide goes in, tide goes out, you can't explain that.\n");
    }

    return 0;
}

I can't tell what's worse: the fact that you (along with traditional christmas warriors) are fighting a war on Christmas only to be contrary, which serves no purpose, or the fact that you used Hungarian Notation.

szSanta - Definately a c-string variable.

a, b - Have no idea what these are.

gg

Have no idea why std::string and std::sort aren't used...

Originally Posted by Elysia

Have no idea why std::string and std::sort aren't used...

Given that stdio.h, stdlib.h, and string.h are used, and no C++ headers are specified, I suspect that this is intended to be C source, not C++. Simply choosing C over C++ is not an automatic sign of trouble.

Alpo also omitted parameter names from the declaration, which is bad practice.

Originally Posted by Elkvis

Given that stdio.h, stdlib.h, and string.h are used, and no C++ headers are specified, I suspect that this is intended to be C source, not C++. Simply choosing C over C++ is not an automatic sign of trouble.

It is... if you are intending to write C++.
But anyway, I wrote that because I wanted to see C++, not C, since C is an eyesore.