Re: C programming question
On 20100414_123342, Ron Johnson wrote:
> On 2010-04-14 09:31, Paul E Condon wrote:
> [snip]
> >
> >non-obvious --- to the point that there was an open contest with
> >prizes awarded for the most obfuscated example of C code. The prizes
> >went to the code for which the judges were most surprised on seeing
> >it run after they read the code and tried to figure out what would
> >happen when it was run.
>
> http://www1.us.ioccc.org/main.html I guess they got bored looking at
> normal production C code...
>
> There was also an Obfuscated Perl Contest, but that only ran for 5
> years due to the "Perl" and "obfuscation" being redundant.
>
> >But the union construct is now there in the language in order to allow
> >the professional practitioner to make his code slightly less
>
> Unions have been in C for at least 20 years; probably since the Early
> Days.
I checked. Union is described in the Ritchie, Johnson, Lesk, and
Kernighan, The C Programming Language, in Bell System Technical
Journal of JULY-AUGUST 1978, p. 1991. At that time the Bell System had
C compilers running on PDP-11, Honeywell 6000, IBM System/370, and
Interdata 8/32. You're right. >20years.
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Paul E Condon
pecondon@mesanetworks.net
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