HELP Newbie solve this Problem - Some Lessons?

[Dennis Lee Bieber]

On Sat, 25 Mar 2000 10:30:33 -0800, "Dennis E. Hamilton"
<infonuovo at email.com> declaimed the following in comp.lang.python:

> I'd like to see people respond to the original challenge to produce a Python
> solution to the given problem (once the homework aspect has passed).

	The "homework aspect" is one reason I went with the FORTRAN
example. I suspected the poster is probably on a UNIX-clone where
FORTRAN is a rare fish (the "don't use AWK" comment).

	Twenty years of coding in F77 also makes it rather easy to
quick-and-dirty realistic programs to these very  (though I wouldn't
want to consider attempting anything with HTML or email parsing <G>).

> Meanwhile, I will use your question as a soap box.  I wouldn't have thought
> to work out a FORTRAN solution, as Bieber did, and I am grateful that he

	If it helps, you can use "Wulfraed" to avoid confusion <G>

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