Talk:Words containing "the" substring: Difference between revisions

 

:::: I'll try to answer the &nbsp; "'''So?'''" &nbsp; queries as politely as possible and keep my answers as civil as possible, ignoring your use of a strawman augment. &nbsp; The addition of reading/processing the words in a dictionary (file) is somewhat trivial, &nbsp; but it <u>is</u> part of the task, &nbsp; and part of Rosetta Code's purpose is to compare how different computer programming languages (and programmers) implement even small requirements, albeit maybe somewhat trivial, &nbsp; but not incidental. &nbsp; I don't know what the author of this task considers incidental, &nbsp; but I won't say that he considers it trivial or not. &nbsp; As trivial as it seems, &nbsp; it is necessary to read/process the input file (the dictionary) and it <u>is</u> one of the task's requirements (although implied), &nbsp; but different computer programming languages could do it much differently and/or simply; &nbsp; '''SAS''' &nbsp;and&nbsp; '''APL''' &nbsp; come to mind. &nbsp; I don't understand the need to mention your non sequitur comment about powering on your computer first. &nbsp; Furthermore, I never said nor implied that the showing the number of substrings found was a task requirement. &nbsp; It's common sense &nbsp; (but not required) &nbsp; to either show a running index count of the words found &nbsp; (especially if the number of words found isn't easily countable), &nbsp; or a summary total at the end of the displayed list, &nbsp; but that is something the programmer decides to implement &nbsp;(or not). &nbsp; &nbsp; -- [[User:Gerard Schildberger|Gerard Schildberger]] ([[User talk:Gerard Schildberger|talk]]) 19:11, 6 December 2020 (UTC)