Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!bellcore!rutgers!gatech!ukma!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!cs.utexas.edu!ut-sally!uunet!littlei!foobar!argent!agora!rickc From: rickc@agora.UUCP (Rick Coates) Newsgroups: comp.binaries.ibm.pc.d Subject: Re: Morse Code Program for PC-XT Summary: This is from the Obfuscated C contest Message-ID: <1008@agora.UUCP> Date: 4 Jun 88 13:34:57 GMT References:<5391@xanth.cs.odu.edu> <2834@cadnetix.COM> Organization: Advanced Solutions, Hillsboro, OR Lines: 30 Rusty writes: > (program translation: . _._ ._ .._ _._. ._ .._ ._. etc.) > (or e k a u c a u r ......????? > > Hmmm, unless I have REALLY forgotten the code, I cannot make heads or tails of > the message here (partly :-), partly serious). >> This compiles and works, believe it or not! > > Yes, but what does it SAY? > > Rusty Carruth N7IKQ DOMAIN: rusty@cadnetix.com Give the author a break! :-) This is only a two level pun (looks like Morse, compiles in C) not three level (first two and has a real message in Morse). BTW - this code is from the annual Obfuscated C code contest. I'm sure that some sort of statement is being made when a winner in an unreadable code contest is being used as useful code, but it's too obscure for me. (I can see it now - Zen C coding ... ommmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm) Rick Coates tektronix!reed!percival!agora!rickc OR tektronix!sequent!islabs!ateq!rick