Obfuscated C

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>  HOWEVER, as useful it would be to include other operators, Remember What
>Happened to PL/1.  Because everyone in the design committee wanted something
>and no-one wanted to say no! we stop adding commands/functions/operators
>here, I have never seen a full implementation of PL/1 on any machine--the
>original language specifications are too bloody big to have a compiler fit
on a single vax.


>         - William Woody
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That's what comes of trying to put a big language on a small machine.

Carrington Dixon