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Re: [FWP] perl5 is 5

On Tue, Oct 19, 1999 at 05:46:52PM +0100, Richard Proctor wrote:
> perl5 is 5.
> 
> So in the spirit of JAPH:
> 
> for(0..3){print"Happy birthday ".(/2/?"dear perl5":"to you").(/3/?".":",")."\n"}
> 
> Can anybody get it smaller...
> 

Yes.  73 characters:

print$a='Happy birthday',$b=' to you',",\n$a$b,\n$a dear perl5,\n$a$b.\n"


Ronald

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