Comment by devsda

Comment by devsda 6 days 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!

a022311 6 days 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/

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epicureanideal 6 days ago

Let's ask an LLM as a test!

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Wyverald 6 days ago

Gemini 3 Pro gave some rather unimpressive answers: https://gemini.google.com/share/3cbcbe1fd64c

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- jb1991 6 days 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.
  
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  natch 6 days ago
  
  Try four leading spaces?
  Test, is this monospaced? 012345678901234567890123456789
  
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  inglor_cz 6 days ago
  
  A screenshot and a link to the resulting JPG?
  
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mckn1ght 6 days 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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DrewADesign 6 days ago

Perl time

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Jnr 6 days ago

Exactly, looks like Perl code to me. :)

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- DrewADesign 5 days 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.
  
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