(for non-technical people: C is an old and important computer language)

There is (or was) a yearly contest to see who could write the most unreadable program in C. This books is a collection of some of the winners(?). It is worth a look.

name the variable representing the file "if". I was the lucky recipient of a series of scripts written in Tcl/Expect and the programmer did just that.

set if filename

Scratched my head for a bit until I finally realized what he'd done.

fortunately most modern coding houses do not allow for any of that nonsense.

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