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From: perelgut@utcsrgv.UUCP (Stephen Perelgut)
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Subject: Re: The Shortest EVER Merry Xmas!!! (in KRC)
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Date: Sat, 26-Nov-83 15:35:53 EST
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Posted: Sat Nov 26 15:35:53 1983
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I beg to differ with the originator's claim of the shortest Merry Christmas
program.  This is the shortest:
	{+:1..15!"Merry Christmas"}

This is a short form version of the Turing language program:
	for : 1..15	% no index name needed if you don't want one
	    put "Merry Christmas"	% stream I/O and strings supported
	end for

Some comments about Turing:
	- it is new and is the only language taught in the
	  undergraduate courses at the University of Toronto
	- its ancestors include Euclid and Concurrent Euclid.
	  This means programs written in Turing can be (and 
	  are being) verified mathematically.
	- it is written using the S/SL technology.  It is
	  highly portable and code generators are planned for
	  a wide variety of machines
	- short-forms are officially recognized and supported

There is a lot more I could say but this already sounds like an advertisement.
If you want to know more, Reston Publishing is handling the Turing textbook
written by Prof. R.C. Holt and Prof. J.N.P. Hume.  
-- 
Stephen Perelgut    Computer Systems Research Group    University of Toronto
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