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Article #5884Re: Portable Self-Replicating C Contest
From: Rahul Dhesi
Date: Sun, 09 Apr 1989 04:13
Date: Sun, 09 Apr 1989 04:13
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In article <12593@haddock.ima.isc.com> karl@haddock.ima.isc.com (Karl Heuer)
writes:
>The nine characters # ^ ~ { | } [ \ ] are not
>allowed to appear in the source; you must use the trigraph equivalents ??=
>??' ??- ??< ??! ??> ??( ??/ ??) instead.
(I'm ??xorry, my ??x key i??x broken, ??xo I'm ??xub??xtituting the
trigraph ??x in it??x place.)
I'm curiou??x to know: What i??x the purpo??xe of the rule above? All
it will do i??x make ??xubmitted program??x harder to read, and nearly
impo??x??xible to make ??xen??xe of in a ca??xual ??xcan.
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Rahul Dhesi <dhesi@bsu-cs.bsu.edu>
UUCP: ...!{iuvax,pur-ee}!bsu-cs!dhesi
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!iuvax!bsu-cs!dhesi From: dhesi@bsu-cs.bsu.edu (Rahul Dhesi) Newsgroups: comp.std.c Subject: Re: Portable Self-Replicating C Contest Message-ID: <6647@bsu-cs.bsu.edu> Date: 9 Apr 89 04:13:03 GMT References: <12144@haddock.ima.isc.com> <12593@haddock.ima.isc.com> Reply-To: dhesi@bsu-cs.UUCP (Rahul Dhesi) Organization: CS Dept, Ball St U, Muncie, Indiana Lines: 15