POV-Ray : Newsgroups : povray.off-topic : Really epic : Re: Really epic Server Time
11 Oct 2024 03:17:23 EDT (-0400)
  Re: Really epic  
From: Jim Henderson
Date: 14 Feb 2008 12:50:55
Message: <47b47f7f$1@news.povray.org>
On Thu, 14 Feb 2008 15:20:37 -0200, Nicolas Alvarez wrote:

> Jim Henderson escribió:
>> On Thu, 14 Feb 2008 13:07:07 -0200, Nicolas Alvarez wrote:
>> 
>>> Invisible escribió:
>>>> I have no idea whether this is actually executable or whether it does
>>>> anything interesting, but somebody *clearly* has a lot of free time
>>>> on their hands....
>>>>
>>>>
>>> You haven't seen the International Obfuscated C Code Contest, have
>>> you?
>> 
>> Do they still hold that?  I remember examples from the past of things
>> like a morse code translator and a source "picture" that was an ASCII
>> train.
>> 
>> 
> I remember one that read data from stdin, and outputted it reversed
> (last character first). And the sourcecode of the program compiled if
> you reverted its characters.

I remember a couple that were like that - one that when compiled and was 
fed the source code generated another program (in another language, IIRC) 
that could then be compiled and run to translate the code into a third 
language.

Jim


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