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grendel

It prints a diagonal line of the specified length. [The problem said to write a brief, simple English sentence; we did not want a paragraph-length blow-by-blow account of what the program was doing.]

#include <iostream>
using namespace std;

int main()
{
    int len;

    cout << "Enter a number: ";
    cin >> len;

    for (int i = 0; i < len; i++)
    {
	int j = i+1;
	while (j < len)
	{
	    cout << ' ';
	    j++;
	}
	cout << "#" << endl;
    }
}

switch (month)
{
  case 6:
    cout << "summer solstice";
    break;

  case 12:
    cout << "winter solstice";
    break;

  case 3:
  case 9:
    cout << "equinox";
    break;

  default:
    cout << "nothing special";
}