[Info-vax] OpenVMS hobbyist license renewal.

[Phillip Helbig undress to reply]

In article <i3n6nrFb3mrU1 at mid.individual.net>, Andy Burns
<usenet at andyburns.uk> writes: 

> Phillip Helbig wrote:
> 
> >      | 1:fb <`"s                     !     else if 'From: pp <aa>' sntx, if ' <'!
> >          1:fb>`"s                    !       then if ending '>' found!
> >            qcj                       !         then go start pers name!
> >            s <`-2dqb-2ub             !           find starting ' <' and delete!
> >            qc,.xc                    !           store pers name qc!
> >            qc,.k                     !           kill pers name!
> >            s>`-dqb-1ub               !           find ending '>' and delete!
> >            qc,.xlqc,.k               !           store addr in ql and kill!
> >          |46^t.:=69^t4:=77^tqq=0tt   !         else bad msg fmt, output err msg!
> >          '                           !         endif!
> >        |                             !       else!
> >          1:fb (`"s                   !         if 'From: aa (pp) sntx, if ' ('!
> >            1:fb)`"s                  !         then if ending ')' found!
> >              qcj                     !           then go start addr!
> >              s (`-2dqb-2ub           !             delete ' (', fix qb!
> >              qc,.xlqc,.k             !             put addr ql, delete!
> >              s)`-dqb-1ud             !             go end pers, del ')', fix qb!
> >              qc,.xcqc,.k             !             put pers name qc, delete!
> >            |46^t.:=69^t5:=77^tqq=0tt !           else bad msg fmt, outpt err msg!
> >            '                         !           endif!
> >          |qcj                        !         else assume single addr case!
> >            ::s<`"s-ds>`-dqb-2ub'     !           handle case 'From: <aa>'!
> >              l2rqc,.xlqc,.k0,0xc     !           assume 'From: aa' syntax!
> That code looks like an example where Kerninghan's "cleverly" quote 
> would be apt.

Or perhaps Dennis Ritchie's "You are not supposed to understand this."  
But the above is commented, and the comments are longer than the code!