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by AKluge 531 days ago
An old classic: Remember, C was never intended to be taken seriously. https://www.cs.cmu.edu/~jbruce/humor/unix_hoax.html
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Ha, Ha! Didn't know of this.

Money quote;

We stopped when we got a clean compile on the following syntax:

for(;P("\n"),R-;P("|"))for(e=3DC;e-;P("_"+(u++/8)%2))P("|"+(u/4)%2);

I am NOT going to try it out.