On Tue, Jan 21, 2003 at 09:39:18PM -0500, Yanick wrote: > On Wed, Jan 22, 2003 at 12:08:23AM +0000, Ian Phillipps wrote: > > The following was distributed a while ago as "footguy.c". > > Can any golfers duplicate its function in perl using fewer characters? > > > > There are a couple of literal ^G in here: > > > > main(l){main(8^putchar(l++["xx77Rd$fR$wPP"]^88)?l:26+fflush(sleep(1))-l);} > > One first, naive try: > > perl -i_ -e'$_||=" oo\n<|>\n_|_\n",s#.$#$&eq$^I?"/":$^I#e while sleep print'
A second, almost as naive, try: perl -e'$_="oo\n<|>\n_|";sleep print while$\=("_\n","/\n")[--$|]' Joy, `/anick -- When I was a young man I vowed never to marry until I found the ideal woman. Well, I found her but, alas, she was waiting for the ideal man.