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!
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!
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/
Let's ask an LLM as a test!
Gemini 3 Pro gave some rather unimpressive answers: https://gemini.google.com/share/3cbcbe1fd64c
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.
Try four leading spaces?
A screenshot and a link to the resulting JPG?
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!
Perl time
Exactly, looks like Perl code to me. :)
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.