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From: firth@sei.cmu.edu (Robert Firth)
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Date: Wed, 12 Oct 1994 10:10:44 EDT
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In article <37gnho$nbt@watnews1.watson.ibm.com> ncohen@watson.ibm.com writes:

>The runner up comes from an assembly-language program: 
>
>   xor R3,R4,R3    THIS IS TRICKY.

I forget the code, but the comment that I'll never forget is

	; DO A GOOD JOB ON THE SIGN BIT

However, my prize for all-time ingenuity in coding goes to the
programmer who was a great fan of Joni Mitchell.  The labels
in his program were the titles of her songs, broken up into
six-character chunks.  Ah, the joy of participating in a code
walkthrough, and coming out of it knowing only that Joni Mitchell
wrote "Song to a Seagull" - or, should I say, SONGTO ASEAGU LL...

In a similar spirit, I inserted into the proof copy of the Ada
Reference Manual the sentence

	The private type CHIPMUNK is predefined.

Alas, Jean noticed (he noticed everything).