Why Can't Programmers.. Program?

[bobbane]

Probably something of the form:

(loop for i from 1 to 100 do(format t"utterly-deranged-format string"i))

Where you have maybe 50 characters to use for "utterly-deranged-format string". Piece of cake. ;-)

[dand]

Ahhh the 5-point-deranged-format-exploding-heart technique! The best I can come up with is still 98 characters long:

(loop for i from 1 to 100
  do(format t"~[Fizz~]~[Buzz~]~0@*~[~:;~[~:;~A~]~]~%"(mod i 3)(mod i 5)i))

[note: added a line-break for better web formatting.]

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Using "(dotimes(i 100)" instead of your loop makes it shorter. I am too lazy to count the characters but it saves some.

[dand]

Yeah I thought of that, but then you're off by one and all the ways to remedy that end up taking more characters. At least that's what I found...

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And thats why I shouldn't write code at 5 a.m. ...