[net.lang.st80] another contest

sasaki@harvard.ARPA (Marty Sasaki) (12/31/84)

**** It is time for another contest ****

I was cleaning out my directory tree when I noticed the results of the
obfuscated C contest. This reminded me of a contest that the ACM ran quite
a while ago. I think it is time to run this again.

Here are the rules:

      o The contest is to find the shortest program text that produces the
	largest number of error messages from the compiler.

      o All languages are acceptable. Only generally available compilers
	are eligible.

      o	The source text should be relatively short.

      o The winner will be determined by the ratio of error lines to source
	lines. Obviously some adjustment will have to be made for languages
	like FORTRAN where you can't just pack everything onto a single line.

	The lines should be 80 characters or less in length.

	Only lines with error message text will be used.

Mail me your entries. Entries should have the source and the error messages.
DO NOT EDIT THE ERROR MESSAGE LISTING. I will remove things from the listing
before determining the number of error lines.

I will post results when the entries die down or shortly after February 1,
whichever comes later (this is to allow for all of you off on vacation
during January).

By the way, the original ACM contest was won by a COBOL program and compiler
(running on OS/360, I think) that was 3 lines long that generated more than
350 lines of errors.
-- 
			Marty Sasaki
			Havard University Science Center
			sasaki@harvard.{arpa,uucp}
			617-495-1270