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In lugnet.off-topic.geek, Richard Marchetti writes: <snip> (...) <snip> Yikes!!! Programmers are way too serious. I have heard of not being able to take a joke, but come on... :-) Jude (24 years ago, 7-Sep-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| | Is it perl or C? (was: Re: Programming Brain Teaser)
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(...) Here's one that's MUCH better-- 'course most of you may have seen this already... someone made code equivalent to UNIX's wc command that can be compiled and run the exact same in perl and C... this one was really clever: (Grrr, it's gonna put (...) (24 years ago, 7-Sep-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| | Re: Programming Brain Teaser
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(...) Yeah, and maybe I am going to have to kick this guy until he is dead. His solution was: printf("abcdefghijkl...tuvwxyz"); // ;("abcdefghijklmnopq...yz")ftnirp Which I would like to point out doesn't print anything in the second instance (...) (24 years ago, 7-Sep-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| | Re: Programming Language Choice
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(...) It depends what you're doing this for and what you're doing with it. If you're happy with VBA and wish to expand in that direction, Visual Basic is probably a fine choice. (I haven't used it since 1.0, so I can't really say too much about it.) (...) (24 years ago, 7-Sep-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| | Re: Programming Brain Teaser
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(...) Well the obvious answer is ";", but that's a bit too simple. I can't think of anything else that doesn't involve several variable and/or function definitions elsewhere. (24 years ago, 7-Sep-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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