On Jun 01, 1994 at 19:14, Keith Richardson of 3:711/934.6 wrote:

 KR>> i sometimes thing that c programmers, especially unix people love
 KR>> obscurity for it's own sake.
 db>>
 db>> Yeah, so ya wanna make somefin' of it?? Hmm?!?! :-)
 KR>
 KR> yearh - try this one on for size:-

Sure, quote something from the Obfuscated C Contest, why doncha?!  Overall,
nice use of the preprocessor (the shell commands obviously assume the
Bourne, Korn or a compatible shell, but are in a comment and are
subsequently stripped away).

 KR> well there you are a classic blend of unix, c and gibberish

Which, thankfully, is not indicative of how "real" C/Unix people work.  :-)

Now REs, *that's* where you can truely be obscure (a few sed/awk scripts
and away you go..).


    - dave
    david{at}zeppo.nepean.uws.edu.au

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