Comment by hans_castorp
3 days ago
This reminds me of "Creators admit Unix, C hoax" (e.g. https://www.gnu.org/fun/jokes/unix-hoax.html)
> We stopped when we got a clean compile on the following syntax:
for(;P("\n"),R--;P("|"))for(e=C;e--;P("_"+(*u++/8)%2))P("| "+(*u/4)%2);
How Perl was created:
‘Larry, throw the cat at the keyboard!’
MEEEOW!
‘What did it type?’
‘&}Ak'>v=4%Qe}9;’
‘OK, so let’s make this a syntax for hello world.’
There was a hilarious video in The early days of YouTube when someone tried to write Perl using vistas voice recognition.
I haven't seen it in many many years, but at the time it struck my giggle button every time.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=MzJ0CytAsec
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OCR works too https://www.mcmillen.dev/sigbovik/
There's always this amazing paper:
https://www.mcmillen.dev/sigbovik/2019.pdf
I also often blame it on my cat, but unfortunately, the truth is simpler ... Larry was inspired by awk. So this is why perl is snoopy swearing.
I was very disappoint to learn that '&}Ak'>v=4%Qe}9;' is not actually hello world in perl :(
here's an actual one: print'(%,,/@(/),$!'^'`@@@@`_@[@@+'
another one
I did genuinely try to run this since, well, it could be true, I don't know Perl.
Bareword found where operator expected (Missing operator before "Ak"?) at -e line 1, near "&}Ak" Bad name after Ak' at -e line 1.
How to trick nerds into installing your spyware 101.
Well, the prank is being refined for many years now, by the fine folks partying at:
https://www.ioccc.org
In fact that line in question does come from an IOCCC winner: https://github.com/ioccc-src/winner/blob/master/1985/shapiro...
In the late 90s, I interviewed for a job as a Technical Product Manager with a Toronto startup. The CTO/Co-founder, was an obfuscated C contest winner: https://www.ioccc.org/1985/lycklama/index.html
Great guy to work with. I think he runs a craft brewery now.
Unix is Dead! Wanna Fight?? (John C. Dvorak):
https://donhopkins.com/home/catalog/unix-haters/etc/unix-is-...