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From: ftw@masscomp.UUCP (Farrell Woods)
Newsgroups: comp.misc
Subject: Re: Silly programming problems
Message-ID: <984@masscomp.UUCP>
Date: 18 Mar 89 22:39:17 GMT
References: <817@krafla.rhi.hi.is>
Reply-To: ftw@quasar.masscomp.UUCP (Farrell Woods)
Organization: Concurrent Computer Corporation - Westford, Ma
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In article <817@krafla.rhi.hi.is> frisk@rhi.hi.is (Fridrik Skulason) writes:
>I am looking for some silly but difficult problems for use in a contest.

I saw this once on a midterm exam given in a first-semester Pascal course.
It was one of those "find all the syntax errors in the following program"
deals.  The same stunt can be applied in C as well.  For sake of brveity,
I've shortened the example:

program foo(input, output)

begin

[ body of foo ]	 (* some miscellaneous comment in the middle of foo * )
		 (* which of course was obscured by other comments *)

end.

Aside from missing semi-colons, parens, quotes, etc. there was the space
between the splat and close paren on that one line.  It was rather subtle.
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