On Fri, Apr 26, 2002 at 03:20:35PM -0400, Douglas H. Quebbeman wrote:
> > "Douglas H. Quebbeman" wrote:
> >
> > > My Data Structures prof lamented the fact (by his observation)
> > > that most people write Pascal in its FORTRAN subset...
> >
> > 10 C WHAT SUBSET IS THAT?
>
> (* The subset wherein everything is type in UPPER CASE
> and no variable names were longer than six characters. *)
Never mind a program written in the FORTRAN subset of Pascal --
there are programs that are FORTRAN and Pascal at the same time.
(You can run them through either kind of compiler. Each compiler
ignores the other language.)
The record holder is COBOL, Pascal, FORTRAN, C, PostScript, sh,
and MS-DOS 8086 executable.
http://www.nyx.net/~gthompso/poly/polyglot.htm
-- Derek
Received on Fri Apr 26 2002 - 23:19:23 BST