[ale] OT: C test

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For those who want to see test their C skills, determine what this
program does.  (Send me email if you do not want to run it on your system.
It was sent to me by a friend and appears to be harmlessly doing only
putchar() invocations but I cannot guarantee it.)

Bob
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/*
 *
 * For those who can't read the following, there's an explanation at:
 *
 * http://www.cs.virginia.edu/~mdn4f/xmassong/
 *
 *
 * LEAST LIKELY TO COMPILE SUCCESSFULLY:
 * Ian Phillipps, Cambridge Consultants Ltd., Cambridge, England
 * 
 * An appropriate program for December 25th, this consists primarily of
 * calls to main() combined by a lot of the ternary conditional (?:)
 * operators. Have you ever seen a more forceful return? The judges note
 * that this program looked like what you would get by pounding on the
 * keys of a type writer at random.
*/

#include <stdio.h>
main(t,_,a)
char *a;
{
return!0<t?t<3?main(-79,-13,a+main(-87,1-_,main(-86,0,a+1)+a)):
1,t<_?main(t+1,_,a):3,main(-94,-27+t,a)&&t==2?_<13?
main(2,_+1,"%s %d %d\n"):9:16:t<0?t<-72?main(_,t,
"@n'+,#'/*{}w+/w#cdnr/+,{}r/*de}+,/*{*+,/w{%+,/w#q#n+,/#{l+,/n{n+,/+#n+,/#
\
;#q#n+,/+k#;*+,/'r :'d*'3,}{w+K w'K:'+}e#';dq#'l \
q#'+d'K#!/+k#;q#'r}eKK#}w'r}eKK{nl]'/#;#q#n'){)#}w'){){nl]'/+#n';d}rw' i;#
\
){nl]!/n{n#'; r{#w'r nc{nl]'/#{l,+'K {rw' iK{;[{nl]'/w#q#n'wk nw' \
iwk{KK{nl]!/w{%'l##w#' i; :{nl]'/*{q#'ld;r'}{nlwb!/*de}'c \
;;{nl'-{}rw]'/+,}##'*}#nc,',#nw]'/+kd'+e}+;#'rdq#w! nr'/ ') }+}{rl#'{n'
')# \
}'+}##(!!/")
:t<-50?_==*a?putchar(31[a]):main(-65,_,a+1):main((*a=='/')+t,_,a+1)
:0<t?main(2,2,"%s"):*a=='/'||main(0,main(-61,*a,
"!ek;dc i at bK'(q)-[w]*%n+r3#l,{}:\nuwloca-O;m .vpbks,fxntdCeghiry"),a+1);
}
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