Harish's World - neither here nor there...

Erdös Number is defined recursively as follows:

• Erdös Has the Number 0
• The Erdös number of a person who has published a paper in collaboration with someone with Erdös Number x is x + 1
• The rest have an Erdös Number infinity

This is what wikipedia has to say about Erdös Number

There are many programming languages. Some common and some many would not even have heard of. It's not just the syntax of the programs that make a language different, but the style of programming in that language is what makes it different. A typical example of this is C and C++. Both follow almost the same syntax. But the style of programming in both varies.

The other day my friend and I were having a discussion, or rather let me put it as an argument on who is a better programmer. This was not the classical argument where one claimed to be better than the other. It was an argument where the two of us were trying to prove that the other was better at programming. In order to give you guys a clue as to where I am heading let me include a small excerpt from it.

Him: i dont program well anytime
Me: rofl thats the best joke ive heard so far
Him: well... XYZ will vouch for that

You are given a problem statement. You need to solve the problem. Eventually you need to write a program to solve it. So how are you going to go about it? This is one question that I have been asking to myself for a long time. In order to do this, we first need to know what a program consists of. As far as a lay man goes, a program is just a set of lines of code written in a programming language. But I say it's more than just lines of code. Its poetry altogether (at least the essence of it is).