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2 From: cornet@OTech.fgg.EUR.nl (Jan-Pieter Cornet)
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3 Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers,alt.lang.intercal
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4 Subject: Re: 90% Cobol?!?
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5 Date: 30 Sep 1994 12:03:23 +0100
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6 Organization: Education Technology, Erasmus University, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
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7 Message-ID: <36gr9r$k4i@gaia.otech.fgg.eur.nl>
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9 [note -- alt.lang.intercal added to newsgroups line. rec.humor removed.
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10 no longer necessary, the added group is also a humor group :]
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12 In article <36evl6$e3m@fenris.hiof.no>,
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13 Gunnar Horrigmo <gunnar.horrigmo@hiof.no> wrote:
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14 >Once upon a time Adam Felson scribbled:
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15 >>>Forgive me father for I have programmed in COBOL.
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16 >>>>You are forgiven. Go now and sin no more.
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17 >>>Thank you father. Whats that? 1,000,000 Hail Mary's?
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18 >>>[COBOL 1,000,000 Hail-Mary's removed]
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19 >>FORTH:
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20 >
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21 >>: 1,000,000_hail_mary's @ special characters in word defined
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22 >> 1000 0 DO @ FORTH usually has a 16bit data stack
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23 >> 1000 0 DO
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24 >> hail-mary!
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25 >> LOOP
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26 >> LOOP
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27 >>;
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28 >
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29 >Ok. I'll have a go at ML, since I'm trying to learn that anyway...
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30 >
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31 > function Hail_Mary (int i)
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32 > if i < 1000000 then Hail_Mary(i+1)
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33 >
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34 >Probably way off, but I've just started, so please correct me.
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36 Fine. You've asked for it, you'll get it. Here it is, 1,000,000 Hail-Mary's
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37 in TriIntercal, which is of course a much better language for this
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38 than ML.
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40 BTW, there appears to be an anomaly in READING OUT tail variables, since
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41 the READ OUT does a bit reversal instead of (as one might expect in
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42 TriIntercal) a trit reversal.
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44 Helpful hint: before you run this through ick, change the loop constants
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45 to something sensible. Finding the loop constants is left as an exercise
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46 to the reader :)
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48 Helpful hint 2: This would not very likely be a winning ICICC entry :)
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50 [program moved to separate file]
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52 Have fun,
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54 --
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55 Jan-Pieter Cornet
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56 <cornet@otech.fgg.eur.nl>
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