Hoax C

[Peter]

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[Charles Pegge]

http://vasc.ri.cmu.edu/old_help/Programming/Literate/c-joke.html

When we found others were actually trying to create real programs with A, we quickly added additional cryptic features and evolved into B, BCPL and finally C. We stopped when we got a clean compile on the following syntax:

for(;P("\n"),R-;P("|"))for(e=C;e-;P("_"+(*u++/8)%2))P("| "+(*u/4)%2);

[kryton9]

The article is dated April 1, so another good joke.