Monday, May 27, 2013

Talk about TMTOWTDI...

At least from my newbie POV, the variety of ways people set up the top levels of their "Fair and Square" programs is pretty amazing.

Some use the standard issue recursive versions of top-level loops you see in texts; some use replicateM. Some ignore the first line, some don't.

I have some reading to do.
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