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Nice. I worked out most of it; the C source part was easy and the Makefile was mostly comprehensible(except for the "true"/"false" rules) but the shell script p
by rramadass 2y ago
Nice. I worked out most of it; the C source part was easy and the Makefile was mostly comprehensible(except for the "true"/"false" rules) but the shell script part was what stumped me; now i see the sneaky whitespace in "false :".
A true IOCCC winner.
One tip for folks trying to figure out this (and other multi-modal) code is to use your editor's syntax highlight feature based on filetype. So for example in vim renaming this file to ".sh" and ".mk" gives you shell script and makefile structures.