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In article <618@hq.af.mil> cliff@hq.af.mil (Cliff.J.Bamford) writes:
>No PL/I equivalent to Obfuscated C? Humph. We used to have Palindromic PL/I
>contests:

Sure, you can do obscure things in any language (the old "self-writing"
program, for instance).  C just lends itself particularly to arcane coding,
what with side-effects operators, the preprocessor, and so on.

Anyway, try this: write a program in PL/I to compute and print the Fibonacci
numbers less than 100 (1,1,2,3,5...).  This program should contain at most
one letter 'e' (case insensitive, of course) and no preprocessor-style 
%directives (easy hint: it's in the "end" statement for the main procedure).  
PL/I being what it is, there are a number of ways of doing this, from the 
elegant to the less-so.
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Jim Perry   perry@apollo.com    HP/Apollo, Chelmsford MA
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