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Galatia

Do you recall back in 2023 where I mentioned failing my C programming class in college? So long ago! Going into this holiday break (a two week vacation for me), I got bored and picked up the old source code and input file and I finished the assignment…on the 30th anniversary of my Incomplete.

Assignment:
Based on knowledge learned through the semester with file management, text processing, memory allocation, data structures, B-Trees, linked-lists, and so on, write a program that can take a text file representing a book of the bible and produce a concordance of the important words, listing each word in alphabetical order with a list of references for each word in book/chapter/verse order. Extra credit if you include a parser to stem the words (instead of “write”, “writes”, “wrote”, you get “write”).

My book was actually Galatians, not Ephesians like I recalled earlier, but whatever.

Input format (sample snippet, no newlines):

@$GAL@ 01:01 Paul, an apostle - sent not from men nor by man, but by Jesus Christ and God the Father, who raised him from the dead -

My old code was written for Borland C on Windows 3 to be run on the command line. That’s how old this code is. It had decent bones, and I gave it an honest try in 1994, but I just couldn’t get the bones to stick together. Something-something about my obvious misunderstanding of fundamentals like pointers, recursion, source file flow, something-something.

Once I got the gcc build chain up on my Linux box and got VSCode going, I tried building what I had. There were so many dependency issues and syntax errors, I moved everything aside and rebuilt the code from the ground up, using old pieces to build new files by the lessons I learned a decade ago when I built my JX3P Tape Dump Decoder tool (also written in C).

20 years of professional and hobby code development has taught me so much more than I ever could’ve grokked in 4 months at that thumb-headed age of 22.

The new code did it proper:

• makefile with real and .phony targets (all, clean)
• *.c source files under ./src/
• *.h headers under ./include/
• *.o object files under ./obj/
• source management with git

Invocation, with explicit source and destination files (can also read from stdin and print to stdout for piping):

user@host:~/concordance$ ./concordance books/galatians.txt final-gal.txt

Sample output from final-gal.txt:

gained         GAL 2:21Galatia        GAL 1:2Galatians      GAL 3:1gave           GAL 1:4, 2:9, 2:20, 3:18Gentile        GAL 2:14, 2:15Gentiles       GAL 1:16, 2:2, 2:7, 2:8, 2:9, 2:12, 2:12, 2:14, 3:8, 3:14gentleness     GAL 5:23gently         GAL 6:1get            GAL 1:18, 4:30give           GAL 2:5, 3:5, 6:9given          GAL 2:9, 3:14, 3:21, 3:22, 3:22, 4:15glad           GAL 4:27glory          GAL 1:5go             GAL 1:17, 2:9, 5:12goal           GAL 3:3God            GAL 1:1, 1:3, 1:4, 1:10, 1:13, 1:15, 1:20, 1:24, 2:6, 2:8, 2:19, 2:20, 2:21, 3:5, 3:6, 3:8, 3:11, 3:17, 3:18, 3:20, 3:21, 3:26, 4:4, 4:6, 4:7, 4:8, 4:9, 4:9, 4:14, 5:21, 6:7, 6:16gods           GAL 4:8good           GAL 4:17, 4:18, 5:7, 6:6, 6:9, 6:10, 6:12goodness       GAL 5:22gospel         GAL 1:6, 1:7, 1:7, 1:8, 1:9, 1:11, 2:2, 2:5, 2:7, 2:14, 3:8, 4:13grace          GAL 1:3, 1:6, 1:15, 2:9, 2:21, 3:18, 5:4, 6:18gratify        GAL 5:16Greek          GAL 2:3, 3:28group          GAL 2:12guardians      GAL 4:2

As an aside, I grabbed the entire bible from Gutenberg.org and modified the formatting to fit the concordance parser, and — hoo-boy — it took 5 minutes for a single thread to chew through that 4MB text file to produce a 3MB concordance. Mighty. Just look at that sample output:

account        1CH 27:24; 2CH 26:11; JOB 33:13; PSA 144:3; ECC 7:27; MAT 12:36, 18:23; LUK 16:2; ACT 19:40; ROM 14:12; 1CO 4:1; PHI 1:18, 4:17; HEB 13:17; 1PE 4:5; 2PE 3:15; 2KA 12:4accounted      DEU 2:11, 2:20; 1KI 10:21; 2CH 9:20; PSA 22:30; ISA 2:22; MAR 10:42; LUK 20:35, 21:36, 22:24; ROM 8:36; GAL 3:6Accounting     HEB 11:19accounts       DAN 6:2accursed       DEU 21:23; JOS 6:17, 6:18, 6:18, 6:18, 7:1, 7:1, 7:11, 7:12, 7:12, 7:13, 7:13, 7:15, 22:20; 1CH 2:7; ISA 65:20; ROM 9:3; 1CO 12:3; GAL 1:8, 1:9accusation     JUD 1:9; EZR 4:6; MAT 27:37; MAR 15:26; LUK 6:7, 19:8; JOH 18:29; ACT 25:18; 1TI 5:19; 2PE 2:11accuse         PRO 30:10; MAT 12:10; MAR 3:2; LUK 3:14, 11:54, 23:2, 23:14; JOH 5:45, 8:6; ACT 24:2, 24:8, 24:13, 25:5, 25:11, 28:19; 1PE 3:16

I included code to preserve capitalization if words appear to be known names, and bring capitalized words to lowercase of they’re seen in lowercase elsewhere (useful for words first seen at the start of sentences). I didn’t include any stemming code, so no extra credit; the parser is naive. And I did cheat a little and use the string search/case/copy methods available in the gcc stdlib, and I don’t feel guilty about it. But I did write the recursive B-Tree and linked list code from scratch, so there’s that.

I won’t be posting the code. I’m proud of it and happy it works, and it’s clean and neat, but I’m not a fan of public git repo sites (especAIlly now). And tarballs seem excessive for how silly this project is.

I still chafe that Dr. H made us do this with a book of the bible but, honestly, it’s an interesting project with other applications. I tested myself and believe I would’ve passed had I enough experience and patience.

So take that, Doctor H! I hope you’re doing well, wherever you are.

#bible #C #college #concordance #gcc #git #Gutenberg #KandR #makefile #programming #success #vscode

Galatia

Do you recall back in 2023 where I mentioned failing my C programming class in college? So long ago! Going into this holiday break (a two week vacation for me), I got bored and picked up the old source code and input file and I finished the assignment…on the 30th anniversary of my Incomplete.

Assignment:
Based on knowledge learned through the semester with file management, text processing, memory allocation, data structures, B-Trees, linked-lists, and so on, write a program that can take a text file representing a book of the bible and produce a concordance of the important words, listing each word in alphabetical order with a list of references for each word in book/chapter/verse order. Extra credit if you include a parser to stem the words (instead of “write”, “writes”, “wrote”, you get “write”).

My book was actually Galatians, not Ephesians like I recalled earlier, but whatever.

Input format (sample snippet, no newlines):

@$GAL@ 01:01 Paul, an apostle - sent not from men nor by man, but by Jesus Christ and God the Father, who raised him from the dead -

My old code was written for Borland C on Windows 3 to be run on the command line. That’s how old this code is. It had decent bones, and I gave it an honest try in 1994, but I just couldn’t get the bones to stick together. Something-something about my obvious misunderstanding of fundamentals like pointers, recursion, source file flow, something-something.

Once I got the gcc build chain up on my Linux box and got VSCode going, I tried building what I had. There were so many dependency issues and syntax errors, I moved everything aside and rebuilt the code from the ground up, using old pieces to build new files by the lessons I learned a decade ago when I built my JX3P Tape Dump Decoder tool (also written in C).

20 years of professional and hobby code development has taught me so much more than I ever could’ve grokked in 4 months at that thumb-headed age of 22.

The new code did it proper:

• makefile with real and .phony targets (all, clean)
• *.c source files under ./src/
• *.h headers under ./include/
• *.o object files under ./obj/
• source management with git

Invocation, with explicit source and destination files (can also read from stdin and print to stdout for piping):

user@host:~/concordance$ ./concordance books/galatians.txt final-gal.txt

Sample output from final-gal.txt:

gained         GAL 2:21Galatia        GAL 1:2Galatians      GAL 3:1gave           GAL 1:4, 2:9, 2:20, 3:18Gentile        GAL 2:14, 2:15Gentiles       GAL 1:16, 2:2, 2:7, 2:8, 2:9, 2:12, 2:12, 2:14, 3:8, 3:14gentleness     GAL 5:23gently         GAL 6:1get            GAL 1:18, 4:30give           GAL 2:5, 3:5, 6:9given          GAL 2:9, 3:14, 3:21, 3:22, 3:22, 4:15glad           GAL 4:27glory          GAL 1:5go             GAL 1:17, 2:9, 5:12goal           GAL 3:3God            GAL 1:1, 1:3, 1:4, 1:10, 1:13, 1:15, 1:20, 1:24, 2:6, 2:8, 2:19, 2:20, 2:21, 3:5, 3:6, 3:8, 3:11, 3:17, 3:18, 3:20, 3:21, 3:26, 4:4, 4:6, 4:7, 4:8, 4:9, 4:9, 4:14, 5:21, 6:7, 6:16gods           GAL 4:8good           GAL 4:17, 4:18, 5:7, 6:6, 6:9, 6:10, 6:12goodness       GAL 5:22gospel         GAL 1:6, 1:7, 1:7, 1:8, 1:9, 1:11, 2:2, 2:5, 2:7, 2:14, 3:8, 4:13grace          GAL 1:3, 1:6, 1:15, 2:9, 2:21, 3:18, 5:4, 6:18gratify        GAL 5:16Greek          GAL 2:3, 3:28group          GAL 2:12guardians      GAL 4:2

As an aside, I grabbed the entire bible from Gutenberg.org and modified the formatting to fit the concordance parser, and — hoo-boy — it took 5 minutes for a single thread to chew through that 4MB text file to produce a 3MB concordance. Mighty. Just look at that sample output:

account        1CH 27:24; 2CH 26:11; JOB 33:13; PSA 144:3; ECC 7:27; MAT 12:36, 18:23; LUK 16:2; ACT 19:40; ROM 14:12; 1CO 4:1; PHI 1:18, 4:17; HEB 13:17; 1PE 4:5; 2PE 3:15; 2KA 12:4accounted      DEU 2:11, 2:20; 1KI 10:21; 2CH 9:20; PSA 22:30; ISA 2:22; MAR 10:42; LUK 20:35, 21:36, 22:24; ROM 8:36; GAL 3:6Accounting     HEB 11:19accounts       DAN 6:2accursed       DEU 21:23; JOS 6:17, 6:18, 6:18, 6:18, 7:1, 7:1, 7:11, 7:12, 7:12, 7:13, 7:13, 7:15, 22:20; 1CH 2:7; ISA 65:20; ROM 9:3; 1CO 12:3; GAL 1:8, 1:9accusation     JUD 1:9; EZR 4:6; MAT 27:37; MAR 15:26; LUK 6:7, 19:8; JOH 18:29; ACT 25:18; 1TI 5:19; 2PE 2:11accuse         PRO 30:10; MAT 12:10; MAR 3:2; LUK 3:14, 11:54, 23:2, 23:14; JOH 5:45, 8:6; ACT 24:2, 24:8, 24:13, 25:5, 25:11, 28:19; 1PE 3:16

I included code to preserve capitalization if words appear to be known names, and bring capitalized words to lowercase of they’re seen in lowercase elsewhere (useful for words first seen at the start of sentences). I didn’t include any stemming code, so no extra credit; the parser is naive. And I did cheat a little and use the string search/case/copy methods available in the gcc stdlib, and I don’t feel guilty about it. But I did write the recursive B-Tree and linked list code from scratch, so there’s that.

I won’t be posting the code. I’m proud of it and happy it works, and it’s clean and neat, but I’m not a fan of public git repo sites (especAIlly now). And tarballs seem excessive for how silly this project is.

I still chafe that Dr. H made us do this with a book of the bible but, honestly, it’s an interesting project with other applications. I tested myself and believe I would’ve passed had I enough experience and patience.

So take that, Doctor H! I hope you’re doing well, wherever you are.

#bible #C #college #concordance #gcc #git #Gutenberg #KandR #makefile #programming #success #vscode

Galatia

Do you recall back in 2023 where I mentioned failing my C programming class in college? So long ago! Going into this holiday break (a two week vacation for me), I got bored and picked up the old source code and input file and I finished the assignment…on the 30th anniversary of my Incomplete.

Assignment:
Based on knowledge learned through the semester with file management, text processing, memory allocation, data structures, B-Trees, linked-lists, and so on, write a program that can take a text file representing a book of the bible and produce a concordance of the important words, listing each word in alphabetical order with a list of references for each word in book/chapter/verse order. Extra credit if you include a parser to stem the words (instead of “write”, “writes”, “wrote”, you get “write”).

My book was actually Galatians, not Ephesians like I recalled earlier, but whatever.

Input format (sample snippet, no newlines):

@$GAL@ 01:01 Paul, an apostle - sent not from men nor by man, but by Jesus Christ and God the Father, who raised him from the dead -

My old code was written for Borland C on Windows 3 to be run on the command line. That’s how old this code is. It had decent bones, and I gave it an honest try in 1994, but I just couldn’t get the bones to stick together. Something-something about my obvious misunderstanding of fundamentals like pointers, recursion, source file flow, something-something.

Once I got the gcc build chain up on my Linux box and got VSCode going, I tried building what I had. There were so many dependency issues and syntax errors, I moved everything aside and rebuilt the code from the ground up, using old pieces to build new files by the lessons I learned a decade ago when I built my JX3P Tape Dump Decoder tool (also written in C).

20 years of professional and hobby code development has taught me so much more than I ever could’ve grokked in 4 months at that thumb-headed age of 22.

The new code did it proper:

• makefile with real and .phony targets (all, clean)
• *.c source files under ./src/
• *.h headers under ./include/
• *.o object files under ./obj/
• source management with git

Invocation, with explicit source and destination files (can also read from stdin and print to stdout for piping):

user@host:~/concordance$ ./concordance books/galatians.txt final-gal.txt

Sample output from final-gal.txt:

gained         GAL 2:21Galatia        GAL 1:2Galatians      GAL 3:1gave           GAL 1:4, 2:9, 2:20, 3:18Gentile        GAL 2:14, 2:15Gentiles       GAL 1:16, 2:2, 2:7, 2:8, 2:9, 2:12, 2:12, 2:14, 3:8, 3:14gentleness     GAL 5:23gently         GAL 6:1get            GAL 1:18, 4:30give           GAL 2:5, 3:5, 6:9given          GAL 2:9, 3:14, 3:21, 3:22, 3:22, 4:15glad           GAL 4:27glory          GAL 1:5go             GAL 1:17, 2:9, 5:12goal           GAL 3:3God            GAL 1:1, 1:3, 1:4, 1:10, 1:13, 1:15, 1:20, 1:24, 2:6, 2:8, 2:19, 2:20, 2:21, 3:5, 3:6, 3:8, 3:11, 3:17, 3:18, 3:20, 3:21, 3:26, 4:4, 4:6, 4:7, 4:8, 4:9, 4:9, 4:14, 5:21, 6:7, 6:16gods           GAL 4:8good           GAL 4:17, 4:18, 5:7, 6:6, 6:9, 6:10, 6:12goodness       GAL 5:22gospel         GAL 1:6, 1:7, 1:7, 1:8, 1:9, 1:11, 2:2, 2:5, 2:7, 2:14, 3:8, 4:13grace          GAL 1:3, 1:6, 1:15, 2:9, 2:21, 3:18, 5:4, 6:18gratify        GAL 5:16Greek          GAL 2:3, 3:28group          GAL 2:12guardians      GAL 4:2

As an aside, I grabbed the entire bible from Gutenberg.org and modified the formatting to fit the concordance parser, and — hoo-boy — it took 5 minutes for a single thread to chew through that 4MB text file to produce a 3MB concordance. Mighty. Just look at that sample output:

account        1CH 27:24; 2CH 26:11; JOB 33:13; PSA 144:3; ECC 7:27; MAT 12:36, 18:23; LUK 16:2; ACT 19:40; ROM 14:12; 1CO 4:1; PHI 1:18, 4:17; HEB 13:17; 1PE 4:5; 2PE 3:15; 2KA 12:4accounted      DEU 2:11, 2:20; 1KI 10:21; 2CH 9:20; PSA 22:30; ISA 2:22; MAR 10:42; LUK 20:35, 21:36, 22:24; ROM 8:36; GAL 3:6Accounting     HEB 11:19accounts       DAN 6:2accursed       DEU 21:23; JOS 6:17, 6:18, 6:18, 6:18, 7:1, 7:1, 7:11, 7:12, 7:12, 7:13, 7:13, 7:15, 22:20; 1CH 2:7; ISA 65:20; ROM 9:3; 1CO 12:3; GAL 1:8, 1:9accusation     JUD 1:9; EZR 4:6; MAT 27:37; MAR 15:26; LUK 6:7, 19:8; JOH 18:29; ACT 25:18; 1TI 5:19; 2PE 2:11accuse         PRO 30:10; MAT 12:10; MAR 3:2; LUK 3:14, 11:54, 23:2, 23:14; JOH 5:45, 8:6; ACT 24:2, 24:8, 24:13, 25:5, 25:11, 28:19; 1PE 3:16

I included code to preserve capitalization if words appear to be known names, and bring capitalized words to lowercase of they’re seen in lowercase elsewhere (useful for words first seen at the start of sentences). I didn’t include any stemming code, so no extra credit; the parser is naive. And I did cheat a little and use the string search/case/copy methods available in the gcc stdlib, and I don’t feel guilty about it. But I did write the recursive B-Tree and linked list code from scratch, so there’s that.

I won’t be posting the code. I’m proud of it and happy it works, and it’s clean and neat, but I’m not a fan of public git repo sites (especAIlly now). And tarballs seem excessive for how silly this project is.

I still chafe that Dr. H made us do this with a book of the bible but, honestly, it’s an interesting project with other applications. I tested myself and believe I would’ve passed had I enough experience and patience.

So take that, Doctor H! I hope you’re doing well, wherever you are.

#bible #C #college #concordance #gcc #git #Gutenberg #KandR #makefile #programming #success #vscode

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An odd collection, but some lighter reads in a hot month!

#literature #bookreviews #bookworm #tbrpile #tbrlist #paulcooper #riverofink #philliparrington #theserpentsage #alanbooth #lookingforthelost #susanhowe #myemilydickinson #concordance #richardadams #watershipdown #talesfromwatershipdown #noellestevenson #nimona #jrrtolkien #thetolkienreader #talesbeforetolkien

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𝗧𝗕𝗥 𝗣𝗶𝗹𝗲: 𝗔𝘂𝗴𝘂𝘀𝘁 𝗥𝗲𝗮𝗱𝘀 -

An odd collection, but some lighter reads in a hot month!

#literature #bookreviews #bookworm #tbrpile #tbrlist #paulcooper #riverofink #philliparrington #theserpentsage #alanbooth #lookingforthelost #susanhowe #myemilydickinson #concordance #richardadams #watershipdown #talesfromwatershipdown #noellestevenson #nimona #jrrtolkien #thetolkienreader #talesbeforetolkien

https://buff.ly/3StARyM

𝗧𝗕𝗥 𝗣𝗶𝗹𝗲: 𝗔𝘂𝗴𝘂𝘀𝘁 𝗥𝗲𝗮𝗱𝘀 -

An odd collection, but some lighter reads in a hot month!

#literature #bookreviews #bookworm #tbrpile #tbrlist #paulcooper #riverofink #philliparrington #theserpentsage #alanbooth #lookingforthelost #susanhowe #myemilydickinson #concordance #richardadams #watershipdown #talesfromwatershipdown #noellestevenson #nimona #jrrtolkien #thetolkienreader #talesbeforetolkien

https://buff.ly/3StARyM

𝗧𝗕𝗥 𝗣𝗶𝗹𝗲: 𝗔𝘂𝗴𝘂𝘀𝘁 𝗥𝗲𝗮𝗱𝘀 -

An odd collection, but some lighter reads in a hot month!

#literature #bookreviews #bookworm #tbrpile #tbrlist #paulcooper #riverofink #philliparrington #theserpentsage #alanbooth #lookingforthelost #susanhowe #myemilydickinson #concordance #richardadams #watershipdown #talesfromwatershipdown #noellestevenson #nimona #jrrtolkien #thetolkienreader #talesbeforetolkien

https://buff.ly/3StARyM

After more than a year of very slowly going through Strongs #concordance and linking all the Aramaic words, indicated as "(Chald.)" in the Hebrew section of the concordance I have, to their Hebrew equivalents, in the last few weeks I decided to put in extra effort to speed up the process. Today I finished the project, linking the very last #Aramaic word to it's #Hebrew equivalent! It's been an interesting exercise, some Aramaic words have the same or similar consonant structure to their Hebrew equivalents, while others have a quite different consonant structure.

#biblicallanguages #biblicalhebrew #biblicalaramaic #hebrewbible

After more than a year of very slowly going through Strongs #concordance and linking all the Aramaic words, indicated as "(Chald.)" in the Hebrew section of the concordance I have, to their Hebrew equivalents, in the last few weeks I decided to put in extra effort to speed up the process. Today I finished the project, linking the very last #Aramaic word to it's #Hebrew equivalent! It's been an interesting exercise, some Aramaic words have the same or similar consonant structure to their Hebrew equivalents, while others have a quite different consonant structure.

#biblicallanguages #biblicalhebrew #biblicalaramaic #hebrewbible

After more than a year of very slowly going through Strongs #concordance and linking all the Aramaic words, indicated as "(Chald.)" in the Hebrew section of the concordance I have, to their Hebrew equivalents, in the last few weeks I decided to put in extra effort to speed up the process. Today I finished the project, linking the very last #Aramaic word to it's #Hebrew equivalent! It's been an interesting exercise, some Aramaic words have the same or similar consonant structure to their Hebrew equivalents, while others have a quite different consonant structure.

#biblicallanguages #biblicalhebrew #biblicalaramaic #hebrewbible