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From: diamond@csl.sony.co.jp (Norman Diamond)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.misc,comp.lang.c
Subject: PL/I winner in C
Message-ID: <11010@riks.csl.sony.co.jp>
Date: 26 Oct 89 01:17:48 GMT
Reply-To: diamond@ws.sony.junet (Norman Diamond)
Followup-To: comp.lang.misc
Organization: Sony Computer Science Laboratory Inc., Tokyo, Japan
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The famous PL/I obfuscation winner can be rendered into C.

IF IF = THEN THEN THEN = ELSE; ELSE ELSE = IF;

The following is a "free" translation, attempting to preserve the
style more than the literal meaning.

endif =
#ifdef ifdef
ifdef == elif
#elif elif == endif
endif == ifdef
#endif
;

-- 
Norman Diamond, Sony Corp. (diamond%ws.sony.junet@uunet.uu.net seems to work)
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