ignatz@ihlpf.UUCP (11/18/83)
#R:ihuxx:-59200:ihlpf:5500007:000:734 ihlpf!ejn Nov 17 18:15:00 1983 Here's a 'program' in TECO (DEC's editor) to print "Merry Christmas" fifteen times: 15<^AMerry Christmas ^A>$$ [I think that's the right syntax; it's been several years since I've used it.] For those who would argue that an editor's command set does not form a programming language, consider this: I once saw an entire BASIC interpreter written in TECO. It was a primitive BASIC and execution was incredibly slow, but it worked. Eric Northrop AT&T Bell Laboratories Naperville, IL ihlpf!ejn P. S. Here's another contest in a similar vein: Pick a machine. Think of all the ways to zero a register in a single instruction and without using any other memory locations. On a DECsystem-10, there are over 50!