on the wasting of time

An assignment is due tomorrow for my theoretical computer science class.

I have stayed up all night to work on it.

Rather than doing productive work I am spending my time writing a program in pic to format pretty trees.

>>4

I think I'll use AWK.  If some guy can write a LISP interpreter in it[1] I can surely make a shitty tree-to-picture compiler.

I already have it mostly reading a text file into an array tree; once I have that debugged it should be piss-easy to get it to walk the tree printing Circle16: circle "23"; line from Circle8 to Circle16;

>>5

I don't want to install a development environment to draw my stupid tree.  The choices are AWK, Emacs Lisp, and C.