in reply to Christmas felicitations, 2006 update

I remember this from last year. There's Perl, C, and C++. As for the fourth language, is it still plain TeX, or have you changed it to LaTeX? I don't remember enough of it to tell myself, I'm afraid. Merry Christmas, by the way.
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Re^2: Christmas felicitations, 2006 update
by jdalbec (Deacon) on Dec 24, 2006 at 19:18 UTC
    It must be plain TeX since there's no reference to \documentclass.
      The proper reason why it cannot be LaTeX is that the file starts with typesettable letters (int), and LaTeX doesn't allow typesettable letters before \begin{document}. Actually it is plain TeX.

      What has changed since 2005: rot13-encryption of the plain TeX part (so it is no longer obvious which poem it prints), and the long initial string of the C/C++ part is made more compact, especially the #define q line.