How do you tell a wizard?

Mike J. Fuller mfuller at prandtl.nas.nasa.gov
Thu Nov 16 07:43:32 AEST 1989


In article <4417 at condict.cs.vu.nl> condict at cs.vu.nl (Michael Condict) writes:
>In article <1989Oct31.133417.2409 at lsuc.on.ca> jim at lsuc.UUCP (Jim Mercer) writes:
>>> Actually, real programmers don't bother storing the
>>> code.  Why do you think I linked /dev/tty to /dev/tty.c
>>> on this system several years ago?  Handy for those simple
>>> C tests.
>> seriously?
. . .
>I'm afraid this is an example of cleverness run amok.  Simpler and better
>would be the following "compile and execute" filter, which I've just
>put in my bin directory as the ce command:
. . .

How about a little program consisting of:

#include "/dev/tty"

Or is that abusing the rules a little too much :-)

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