Two programs

[ais523]

I have discovered something else that INTERCAL seems to do better than
most other languages (besides bit-reversing numbers). The following C
program:
#include <stdio.h>
int main()
{
printf("%d\n",(int)(90-(-4.5//**/
-4.5)));
return 0;
}
is considerably longer and less clear (!) than the following program:
DO .1 <- #1$#0
DO READ OUT .1
PLEASE GIVE UP
The fact that the two programs produce different output is irrelevant.
However, if you consider the unusual comment in the C program, and the
fact I didn't specify whether the other program was INTERCAL or
Tri-INTERCAL, the correspondence between the two programs should become
clearer.

OK, so maybe I'm cheating.

[Simon Richard Clarkstone]

ais523 wrote:

Heh, clever.

For those of you that haven't worked it out: The C program gives 89 in
C89 and 99 in C99. The INTERCAL program gives the base (TWO to SEVEN).

IMHO, the printf call should be:
> printf("C%d\n",(int)(90-(-4.5//**/
> -4.5)));

Note the extra "C".
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[Brian Raiter]

> DO .1 <- #1$#0
> DO READ OUT .1
> PLEASE GIVE UP

That's a lovely little program.

b