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Re: Another Silly programming puzzle....

#4745
From: Roger Crew
Date: Mon, 10 Apr 1989 09:10
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In article <1751@aucs.UUCP> 850347s@aucs.UUCP (Hume Smith) writes:
>In <850347s@aucs.UUCP> (Hume Smith) almost, but not quite, wrote
>> exactly why i hate pascal - a hundred lines of illegibility instead of the
>> 2 or 3 you'd have in C.
> 
> read that carefully, i do mean the 2 or 3 lines of illegibilty :-)

Three lines of illegibility?  No problem...

main(){
  register b;
  while(~(b=getchar()))
    putchar(1+(('@'^--b&'_')<26?b^="\r\017\r\023\025\027\025\023\035\037\035\023\025"[b%32%13]:b));
}

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