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From: ignatz@ihlpf.UUCP
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Subject: "Re: Merry Christmas in Bourne Shell - (nf)"
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Date: Fri, 18-Nov-83 03:00:33 EST
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Posted: Fri Nov 18 03:00:33 1983
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ihlpf!ejn    Nov 17 18:15:00 1983

Here's a 'program' in TECO (DEC's editor) to print "Merry Christmas"
fifteen times:

15<^AMerry Christmas
^A>$$

[I think that's the right syntax; it's been several years since I've
used it.]

For those who would argue that an editor's command set does not form
a programming language, consider this:  I once saw an entire BASIC
interpreter written in TECO.  It was a primitive BASIC and execution
was incredibly slow, but it worked.


				Eric Northrop
				AT&T Bell Laboratories
				Naperville, IL
				ihlpf!ejn


P. S.	Here's another contest in a similar vein:
	Pick a machine.  Think of all the ways to zero a register
	in a single instruction and without using any other memory
	locations.  On a DECsystem-10, there are over 50!