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Re: Programming Brain Teaser
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Date: 
Thu, 7 Sep 2000 01:55:28 GMT
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MATTDM@ihatespamMATTDM.ORG
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richard marchetti <blueofnoon@aol.com> wrote:
What line of code written either in C, C++, or Perl will compile written
forward as well as backwards?  The following was submitted as an example of
the FORM of the answer, while not itself being the answer:

Does the code need to compile in all of those, or just some of them?
It's really easy in perl. :)

Does it have to compile by itself, or can it be part of a larger program?
The former is more difficult in C/C++...

Also, what qualifies as a statement, exactly?




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  Programming Brain Teaser
 
Hey Y'all: Someone posed the following teaser to me, and I admit that it has stumped me completely. It has even stumped my programmer buddies (which creates doubt in my mind that there IS actually a solution to the puzzle). The question was posed (...) (24 years ago, 7-Sep-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)

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