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+# Most ambiguous language
+
+        V. Chia
+        Singapore
+        bi@mncw.tk
+
+## Judges' comments
+
+Have you had your morning cup of Java?  You might want a
+second cup before parsing this entry.  And give your C
+pre-processor a triple shot as it tries to handle parameters
+for "stringification".
+
+### To build
+
+      cc chia.c -o chia
+
+### To run
+
+      chia
+
+## Author's comments
+
+Two things inspired this entry. First, there were the C programs which were
+`#define`'d to look like Pascal or Visual Basic: the /bin/sh code from V7 Unix
+(which reportedly was the motivation behind this contest!), the VAL Linker by
+David Troendle, the 2000/primenum entry, ... Looking at these programs, I
+thought, "hmm... if it's possible to make C code look like some weird cross
+between Pascal, VB, and COBOL, then how about making C code look like some
+other language?"
+
+As chance would have it, I was writing some Java code at that time, and one of
+my net.friends was also working on someone else's Java code. We both hated
+Java; indeed, I hated Java so much that I was tired of hating it. Then I
+remembered my earlier idea: "Of course! Why not write C code that looks like
+Java? And poke fun at Java while I'm at it? All ye behold, as I turn anger
+into action! PH34R MII!!!!!!!" And so, this entry was born. :-)
+
+Besides carrying a revolutionary message in the comments, this entry also
+draws a spiffy little Koch snowflake fractal on the screen, with the help of
+ANSI escape sequences.
+
+The code requires a preprocessor that can stomach all kinds of nonsense that
+are passed as parameters to macros for stringification. GNU cpp handles such
+things just fine, but certain broken preprocessors may decide to freak out
+when they see macro parameters that don't look like C tokens.