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Challenge issued. I wouldn't be surprised if someone comes up with obfuscated C code that looks like a christmas tree and prints out wishes by the end of the d

by devsda 9mo ago

Challenge issued. I wouldn't be surprised if someone comes up with obfuscated C code that looks like a christmas tree and prints out wishes by the end of the day/season. Merry Christmas!

DrewADesign 9mo ago
Perl time
- Jnr 9mo ago
  Exactly, looks like Perl code to me. :)
  - DrewADesign 9mo ago
    It’s tragic that having a language as flexible and unopinionated as Perl is admittedly terrible for novice programmers because Learning Perl is easily one of the greatest introductory programming books.
epicureanideal 9mo ago
Let's ask an LLM as a test!
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- mckn1ght 9mo ago
  I did recently try to use an LLM to make a twinkling christmas tree quine in the style of qlobe. It didn’t get close, maybe next year!
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- Wyverald 9mo ago
  Gemini 3 Pro gave some rather unimpressive answers: https://gemini.google.com/share/3cbcbe1fd64c https://gemini.google.com/share/3cbcbe1fd64c
  - jb1991 9mo ago
    ChatGPT did much better but I cannot paste it into this text box no matter how many times I try with different formatting to get the white space preserved. chatGPT also could not figure out how to format it for pasting here.
    - inglor_cz 9mo ago
      A screenshot and a link to the resulting JPG?
    - natch 9mo ago
      Try four leading spaces? Test, is this monospaced? 012345678901234567890123456789
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a022311 9mo ago
I'll admit it does look a bit like an IOCCC [0] entry. Can someone please do it for us? [0]: https://www.ioccc.org/ https://www.ioccc.org/
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