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From: edb@HQ.Ileaf.COM (Ed Blachman x4420)
Newsgroups: comp.text
Subject: Re: Wanted: Tower of Hanoi Solution
Message-ID: <1991Mar4.163007.26085@HQ.Ileaf.COM>
Date: 4 Mar 91 16:30:07 GMT
References: <8564@exodus.Eng.Sun.COM> <1991Feb28.233931.2615@HQ.Ileaf.COM> <1991Mar1.191413.7453@mtxinu.COM>
Reply-To: edb@HQ.Ileaf.COM (Ed Blachman)
Organization: The Waltham Home for the Smiley-Impaired
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In article <1991Mar1.191413.7453@mtxinu.COM> jaap@mtxinu.UUCP (Jaap Akkerhuis) writes:
> In article <1991Feb28.233931.2615@HQ.Ileaf.COM> edb@HQ.Ileaf.COM (Ed Blachman) writes:
>  > In article <8564@exodus.Eng.Sun.COM> tut@cairo.Eng.Sun.COM (Bill "Bill" Tuthill) writes (tongue-in-cheek, I assume):
>  > > We have converted most of our documents from troff to FrameMaker,
>  > > but I am unable to convert this Tower of Hanoi program written
>  > > in troff.  Could anyone supply the equivalent for FrameMaker or
>  > > Interleaf?  Thanks in advance.
>  > > 
>  > > [etc.]
>  > 
>  > Here is a way to do this with Interleaf 5:
>  > 
>  > [silly lisp program removed]
>  >  agree) understandably not quite as terse.
>  > 
>  > We hope this was what you were looking for.... ;^)
>  > 
> 
> I would consider it cheating.

Excuse me?  Did I miss a smiley here or something?  Bill's Tower of Hanoi
 solution was an nroff macro; the one that Paul and I wrote was an Interleaf
 macro.  It just happens that the Interleaf macro language is Interleaf
 lisp... but how does that make it cheating?

> It would be like calling a lisp program from troff with
> 	.sy lisp hanoi > hanoi.out
> and capture the result with
> 	.so hanoi.out

Actually, I considered a solution of that sort: using Interleaf lisp to
 invoke troff (with Bill's input) as an external process.  Now *that*
 would have been cheating... I guess.  ;^)

Ed Blachman	edb@ileaf.com	(or)   ...!uunet!leafusa!edb