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A comment on C++ Grandmaster Certification Programming Assignment 1.

Re:C++ Grandmaster Certification Programming Assignment 1 by marshray on Wednesday February 20, 2013 @11:51AM (#5251483)
Write a C++ application called pptoken that accepts a C++ Source File on standard input, executes phases 1, 2 and 3 of the Phases of Translation (defined below), and describes the resulting sequence of preprocessing-tokens to standard output in the specified format.

In all seriousness, is this a prank?

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Re:C++ Grandmaster Certification Programming Assignment 1 by defen on Wednesday February 20, 2013 @11:56AM (#5251528)
I had the same reaction...seems like an elaborate troll to point out the vast complexity of C++. This particular assignment doesn't seem "that hard", but this is probably the easiest part of writing a C++ compiler/stdlib.
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