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Subject: Re: Any reason to use C?

Author: Matthew White

Date: 19:08:34 07/29/03

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On July 29, 2003 at 15:40:16, Dann Corbit wrote:

>On July 29, 2003 at 15:31:11, Tord Romstad wrote:
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>>On July 29, 2003 at 15:17:51, Dann Corbit wrote:
>>
>>>Of course, you can get bizarre in C too (the "C Puzzle Book" is proof enough of
>>>that.)  I once had the displeasure of someone giving me a function that was a
>>>64K return statement.  He thought it was cute.
>>
>>This is getting increasingly off-topic, but I cannot resist the temptation
>>to post the cutest little C program I have ever seen.  It computes an
>>approximation of pi by calculating its own area.  :-)
>>
>>
>>/*
>>  * Program to compute an approximation of pi
>>  * by Brian Westley, 1988
>>  * (requires pcc macro concatenation; try gcc -traditional-cpp)
>>  */
>>
>>#define _ -F<00||--F-OO--;
>>int F=00,OO=00;
>>main(){F_OO();printf("%1.3f\n",4.*-F/OO/OO);}F_OO()
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>Here is more of the same:
>http://www.ioccc.org/years.html
I remember that one... It's a great one :).

Matt



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