Re: A short program

["Roger Pence" <rp@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Nearly a tie between Allen Stuart and Dave Kahn, but Dave gets the sixer
because Stuart didn't suggest a lanuage:

Stuart's reply:
    How about a program containing just null?
    It's source would also be a null!
    Not telling it to display anything would mean it displays null.....

Not quite as specific as the judges would like!

Dave hammered away at the problem and came up with a NULL CL program. That
is exactly what Bruce Lesnick did. Try it, a null CL program will
compile--it won't in many other languages (such as RPG).

Congratulations, Dave. I owe you six cold ones. I'm good for 'em, too.
What's your address?

rp

PS: I must say I'm a little disappointed in you guys. I know you are a sharp
bunch, but I had hoped for this little thing to go one for a day or so until
you all forgot your never-ending I-love-the-cycle, I-hate-the-cycle ranting
and raving.

Hey, did anyone hear that IBM is replacing RPG with Java...very soon now...
and have you heard that tests show that GUI is the better data entry model
than green-screen... yep, tests proved it... and did you hear the one about
NT scaling better than the AS/400... or that ILE RPG is soooooo much better
than RPG/400... SNA is dead...CA/400 doesn't really suck...network stations
will replace PCs in September, worldwide, by NATO mandate... all AS/400
managers are short doughy guys with bad breath...  while indicators are
generally regarded as bad, it is a proven fact that if you use indicator 59
in your RPG programs (anywhere!) they will compile faster and perform better
(no truth to the rumor that indicator 23 is the so-called "Lightning
Indicator")...

isn't there something else we can argue about now?


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