Best Layout: Brian Westley (Merlyn LeRoy on usenet) DigiBoard, Inc. 1026 Blair Ave. St. Paul, MN 55104 USA Judges' comments: usage: westley If you would rather "Daisy" someone other than Westley, rename the program as needed. :-) Read each block of code as if it were a piece of correspondence. For example, the first block of code would read: charlie, doubletime me, OXFACE! not interested, get out mainly die, charly, *die* signed charlotte The original source had control-L's after each code block. To make it easier on news readers, we converted each control-L to a blank line. Some ANSI compilers will not accept '1s' as a short integer - for these compilers replace the '1s' with '1'. Selected notes from the author: This is a "Picking the Daisy" simulation. Now, instead of mangling a daisy, simply run this program with the number of petals desired as the argument. This is a good counter-example to peoples' complaints that C doesn't have an "English-like" syntax. Lint complains about everything - null effect, xxx may be used before set, statement not reached, return(e) and return. Lint dumps core on some systems. My personal favorite lint complaint is "warning: eroticism unused in function main". Also obviously, (char)lotte and (char*)lie are incompatible types... Copyright (c) 1990, Landon Curt Noll & Larry Bassel. All Rights Reserved. Permission for personal, educational or non-profit use is granted provided this this copyright and notice are included in its entirety and remains unaltered. All other uses must receive prior permission in writing from both Landon Curt Noll and Larry Bassel.