Many years ago I stumbled on a programming golf contest on the old Something Awful forum. The challenge was to convert a byte string to a hex dump. I wrote it a

Many years ago I stumbled on a programming golf contest on the old Something Awful forum. The challenge was to convert a byte string to a hex dump. I wrote it as a distributed JNI system with CORBA based RPC. The boilerplate stuff alone was like 500 lines. This is what I did for fun in high school. I wasted my youth.