Re: Short Program - David Gibbs please read!!!

[David Gibbs <david@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Works for me.

Since RP came up with the original idea, he gets to be the judge.

The winners entry will also be posted to the http://www.midrange.com
in a suitable place of honor :)

david

> 
> Roger,
> 
> That's a pretty nifty little contest you came up with there.  It made me
> think of the opposite though. What would the longest, most "Rube
> Goldberg like" program be for listing its own source? There's something
> to think about if anyone's interested.  Come up with the most complex,
> convoluted logic, which must also work, to list the source of a program.
> 
> Tell you what...as long as David Gibbs doesn't mind...Somehow I ended up
> with an extra, 1st Quarter 1999 Midrange Computing Resource CD this
> month, which I will give away to whoever comes up with the most
> original, most creative, "clean (no foul language or concepts)", most
> convoluted, complex, funny and Rube Goldberg like set of logic for
> getting a program to list its own source.
> 
> Just to make this simple, don't list any actual program code, unless it
> helps to explain the logic. Also, the logic must work and it must all
> work together to produce the final output. You are not limited to the
> world of ether...either.   Let's keep this to simple English and
> Psuedo-code type of logic.
> 
> I'll give you guys 24 hours or so to come up with
> something...say...until 5 P.M. Central time on Friday, April 9.
> 
> Post the entries here so we can all enjoy them.

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