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List:       sas-l
Subject:    Re: Jeopardy/Millionaire questions
From:       Jack Hamilton <jfh () stanfordalumni ! org>
Date:       2008-04-30 18:22:55
Message-ID: 1209579775.24561.1250741347 () webmail ! messagingengine ! com
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You might want to look at the literate programming FIST,
<http://www.fourmilab.ch/fist/>, which

"allows you to generate Sixties-style banners of a clenched fist with a
slogan of your choice at the bottom. Unlike poseur programs, this one
actually traces its lineage directly back to September 1969, and has
survived migration from mainframes to personal computers, across a
variety of programming languages, and from punched card six bit
character sets all the way to ASCII.

"fist prints an image of a clenched fist (unless suppressed by the -c
option), followed by a slogan in block letters, limited to 16 characters
per line (“Television is to news as bumper stickers are to
philosophy.”—Richard M. Nixon).   Options permit you to scale the fist
commensurate to the iniquities of the Oppressor (or your printer's paper
size, whichever is smaller), select right- or left-handed blows against
the Empire, and various other gimmicks [...]."




On Wed, 30 Apr 2008 09:41:42 -0400, "Jim Agnew" <agnew@VCU.EDU> said:
> Y'know, there used to be all sorts of user-written procs like proc
> explode, where you could make banners and so forth..
>
> Whatever happened to those??
>
> j.
>
> Jack Hamilton wrote:
> > Paul Dorfman wrote:
> >
> >>  Richard,
> >>
> >> The Jeopardy format, most definitely. BTW, this style was tried at SAS
> >> Bowl in Seattle and methought it worked much better than the Q->A
> >> format that had been always used before. Unfortunately, the Bowl went
> >> defunct for reasons having nothing to do with the format. Now, a small
> >> contribution:
> >>
> >> A. This SAS procedure does not exist, yet often becomes a SAS
> >> interview subject.
> >> Q. What is Proc Merge?
> >
> > We (SAS-L) should find someone with a SAS/Toolkit license and *write* a
> > PROC MERGE.  What should it do?
> >
> > It might be possible to write a PROC MACRO using implicit macros, but
> > I'm not sure how we would capture the final "run;" without doing
> > something dreadful.  Maybe I just need to think about it longer.
> >
>
> --
>
> "Games? Solitaire? I have a 2-node VAXcluster, 3 Windows 2000 servers, 2
> Windows 2003 servers, 1 MySQL Database Server, 1 Postgres Database
> Server, 1 Linux server, several Ubuntus and a direct satellite feed to
> my windows desktop background, who needs toys???"  -  Jim


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Jack Hamilton
Sacramento, California
jfh@alumni.stanford.org
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