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   Richard Heathfield to Rikkur   
   Re: Program, that does anything, that yo   
   10 Jul 22 10:08:37   
   
   From: rjh@cpax.org.uk   
      
   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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