morning and evening prayers prog

Ok. I made something the past couple of days.
It is written in C, which is probably a stupid choice of language for the project, but it was really more of a "learn C" project than a "do things sensibly" project.

Anyway, basically, it is a commandline program, which I know compiles and runs great in Linux, and ...I can't see why it wouldn't in windows if you had the standard libraries (but would you?). It uses system("clear"); I am not sure if that works in win or not.

Anyway, basically if its run with the argument -m it displays morning prayers (some of which depend if its Saturday or not). With the argument -e it displays evening prayers.
With the argument -p number it is supposed to display the number psalm but so far it only has psalm 50 and 120.

I dunno if the translations I used actually are copyrighted, but they probably are and I probably can't actually share them legally, I don't know. I copied and pasted from various places according to my aesthetic tastes and without really paying attention to what I was doing.

So all in all, its probably not that great a program, most of the psalms are missing (and the whole way of actually putting them in the code instead of accessing them from a file was in retrospect a silly idea), probably not legal, you'd have to compile it yourself, and it might not windows.

LOL.

But I am still pretty happy with it given its my first C project and I thought, maybe someone else would find it interesting, even (in my dreams) useful?

Well you can get the archive here.
You just need to make it with gcc -o whatevernameyoulike prayers.c prayertexts,c psalms.c.
(You can even fill in the rest of the psalms first if you like )

Josiah14 said:

C isn't that bad a choice, since its a small program...

Sounds cool, what you are doing.

you should pay a visit here:

The Dynamic Horologion
The Dynamic Horologion And Psalter

I hate copyrights when it comes to the services. Personally, I think it is un-Orthodox to translate the services and then copyright them so that their use by the laity is restricted. As many in our Church have said "The Faith is not for sale".

If it weren't for copyright restrictions, the entire Festal Menaion could be published online, along with the rest of the texts that are available for free for all to use (the Octoechos, the Horologion, Menalogion/Synaxarion, and the General Menaion are all available for free).

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Thanks.
I really have no clue what I am doing, mostly just messing around in an unstructured fashion. Already I can see a few more stupid things I did in that version lol. But its a lot of fun. I can't believe I never tried programming really before this summer because its so exciting.