: >Well, if that's your goal, you're gonna have to work a little harder.
: >I sent this out last week, but it never made it off my machine.  It's
: >50 characters, counting the final newline.
: >
: >    main(){system("perl -pe 's/\\w+/reverse$&/eg'");}
: >
: >It's almost readable, too.
: >
: >Larry Wall
:
: Well, if we're allowed to write our own interpreters then yours is
: easy to beat!
:
:     main(){system("a");}
:
: 20 characters! (Not counting the final newline.)
:
: You haven't heard of my interpreter "a"?  Well it just so happens
: that, without any command line arguments, it filters stdin to stdout
: in a manner that is identical to any of the valid entries to this
: competition, like your entry above for example.  :-)
:
: John Ellson

Well, hey, I said you'd have to work a *little* harder, not a lot harder.  :-)

Larry