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Re: Regex: Any character in character class

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On Mon, 04 Feb 2013 14:26:50 -0800, Gene Wirchenko wrote:

> On Fri, 01 Feb 2013 17:13:54 -0500, Arne Vajhøj <arne@vajhoej.dk> wrote:
> 
> [snip]
> 
>>I think I must have set a new world record. 3 bugs in 12 characters.
>>
>>:-(
> 
>      I may be able to save your honour.  <G>
> 
>      IBM had bugs in a one-instruction program of two bytes long.  The
> program was IEFBR14, and you can read about it on Wikipedia.  There was
> a series of corrections which resulted in a program several times
> larger.
>
Quite apart from the programmers needing a medal for the number of bugs 
they managed to write, there would seem to be at least two extra prizes 
the be awarded:

Parkinson Cup:      for the greatest expansion of a program without adding
                    any functionality.

Obscurantist Medal: to the assembler designer for creating the most
                    obscure assembler syntax I've ever seen. 

                    It easily beats Elliott 503 assembler (which had
                    no opcode mnemonics and KDF6 assembler, which 
                    didn't allow variable names.
                     
Thank $DEITY I managed to avoid using an S/360 or its lineal descendants.


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Regex: Any character in character class Sebastian <news@seyweiler.dyndns.org> - 2013-01-30 10:34 +0100
  Re: Regex: Any character in character class Mikhail Vladimirov <vladimirow@mail.ru> - 2013-01-30 02:05 -0800
    Re: Regex: Any character in character class Arne Vajhøj <arne@vajhoej.dk> - 2013-01-30 22:26 -0500
  Re: Regex: Any character in character class Mikhail Vladimirov <vladimirow@mail.ru> - 2013-01-30 02:07 -0800
  Re: Regex: Any character in character class Arne Vajhøj <arne@vajhoej.dk> - 2013-01-30 22:27 -0500
    Re: Regex: Any character in character class Arved Sandstrom <asandstrom2@eastlink.ca> - 2013-02-01 05:35 -0400
    Re: Regex: Any character in character class Sebastian <news@seyweiler.dyndns.org> - 2013-02-01 21:14 +0100
      Re: Regex: Any character in character class Lew <lewbloch@gmail.com> - 2013-02-01 12:54 -0800
      Re: Regex: Any character in character class Arne Vajhøj <arne@vajhoej.dk> - 2013-02-01 16:47 -0500
        Re: Regex: Any character in character class markspace <markspace@nospam.nospam> - 2013-02-01 14:06 -0800
          Re: Regex: Any character in character class Arne Vajhøj <arne@vajhoej.dk> - 2013-02-01 17:13 -0500
            Re: Regex: Any character in character class Sebastian <news@seyweiler.dyndns.org> - 2013-02-02 20:45 +0100
              Re: Regex: Any character in character class markspace <markspace@nospam.nospam> - 2013-02-02 12:20 -0800
              Re: Regex: Any character in character class Arne Vajhøj <arne@vajhoej.dk> - 2013-02-02 16:03 -0500
                Re: Regex: Any character in character class Lew <lewbloch@gmail.com> - 2013-02-02 13:23 -0800
                Re: Regex: Any character in character class Arne Vajhøj <arne@vajhoej.dk> - 2013-02-02 20:18 -0500
            Re: Regex: Any character in character class Gene Wirchenko <genew@telus.net> - 2013-02-04 14:26 -0800
              Re: Regex: Any character in character class Martin Gregorie <martin@address-in-sig.invalid> - 2013-02-05 00:03 +0000
      Re: Regex: Any character in character class Robert Klemme <shortcutter@googlemail.com> - 2013-02-02 00:08 +0100

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