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Re: Program, that does anything, that you command.

From Richard Heathfield <rjh@cpax.org.uk>
Newsgroups comp.programming
Subject Re: Program, that does anything, that you command.
Date 2022-07-10 10:08 +0100
Organization Fix this later
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On 10/07/2022 9:53 am, Rikkur wrote:
> Has anybody thought of making a program, that makes anything you need ?

Yes. Diomidis Spinellis wrote such a program for the 1988
International Obfuscated C Code Contest.

> What I am thinking, is that there would be an input area, where you type in,  what you need, and then the program looks it through and produces the neccessary input fields and does, whatever is needed.

Yes, that's pretty much the approach Spinellis took.

Here's his source code, in full:

#include "/dev/tty"

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Program, that does anything, that you command. Rikkur <minaoleneikeegiteine@gmail.com> - 2022-07-10 01:53 -0700
  Re: Program, that does anything, that you command. Richard Heathfield <rjh@cpax.org.uk> - 2022-07-10 10:08 +0100
    Re: Program, that does anything, that you command. Rikkur <minaoleneikeegiteine@gmail.com> - 2022-07-10 02:13 -0700
    Re: Program, that does anything, that you command. Rikkur <minaoleneikeegiteine@gmail.com> - 2022-07-10 02:15 -0700
    Re: Program, that does anything, that you command. Rikkur <minaoleneikeegiteine@gmail.com> - 2022-07-10 02:41 -0700
    Re: Program, that does anything, that you command. K <he1983912@gmail.com> - 2022-07-19 13:24 -0700
    Re: Program, that does anything, that you command. K <he1983912@gmail.com> - 2022-07-19 13:25 -0700

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