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  Is it perl or C? (was: Re: Programming Brain Teaser)
 
(...) 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)
 
  Re: Is it perl or C? (was: Re: Programming Brain Teaser)
 
When looking at this, I can't believe I actually wanted to learn how to program ^-^ I thought it was much more simple, like AppleScript or the POV-ray scene description language. --Tobias David Eaton wrote: <SNIP> (...) (24 years ago, 13-Sep-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
 
  Re: Is it perl or C? (was: Re: Programming Brain Teaser)
 
(...) Well, this is an example of horrific code, because it was purposely written so that it would parse, compile, and run in two different languages ... actual C code or Perl code is usually much nicer to look at and understand. BUT, let it be said (...) (24 years ago, 13-Sep-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)

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