marcelo-earth on Making a Python interpreter in 1024 bytes

Reading the article, I can't believe I just found out Code Golf is a thing. I've been a programmer for more than a decade.

But yes, amazing project! I like that it's human-made :)

The quintessential example is donut.c. I was amazed when I first came across it.

This was my first attempt at obfuscated C and I feel it's pretty amateurish

I love feelings of inadequacy at 11:07pm on a Sunday.

Here's the judges' remarks and author commentary on the second edition of this from the 2006 results: https://www.ioccc.org/2006/sloane/index.html

This one is my favorite:

Thanks, this makes me happy.

Absolute legend

it’s worked on every system I’ve tried so far though

Still my favorite part of the whole thing. Classic moment of “who among us hasn’t doesn’t this?” lol

Always fun to see this pop up years later. (Damn, 20 years now)

Get thee to

And then if you really want to go large

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