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From: gwyn@smoke.BRL.MIL (Doug Gwyn )
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: programming challenge (silly)
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Date: 5 Mar 89 01:28:15 GMT
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In article <2102@jasper.UUCP> c415-23@alberta.UUCP (Morris Barbara L) writes:
>The best we were able to do was 98 characters (result of wc).

The best I could do with approximately-portable C was 105 characters.
(Fully-portable C requires the addition of "#include<stdio.h>".)
There are several ways to "cheat", e.g. cc -Dp=printf, system(), etc.
What are the ground rules?