commit b5402d89595bf01facc451205b80239bd7dc4304
Author: NunoSempere <nuno.sempere@protonmail.com>
Date: Fri, 8 Sep 2023 22:27:32 +0200
add initial plans.
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+Desiderata
+
+- Simple: Simple operation in terms of counting spaces and \n.
+- Avoid "off by one" errors; make sure an empty file is reported as such.
+ - Words as space or enter, followed by nonspace, followed by space? Make sure two spaces aren't two words?
+- Keep Linux only.
+- No flags. Only count words, not lines.
+- Allow piping, as well as reading files.
+ - Wonder how normal utilities handle this.
+- Could use zig? => Not for now
+
+Steps:
+
+- [ ] Look into how C utilities both read from stdin and from files.
+- [ ] ...
+- [ ] Compare with other implementations, see how they do it, after I've read my own version
+ - Compare with gnu utils,
+ - Compare with musl/busybox implementations,
+ - Maybe make some pull requests, if I'm doing something better?
