Re: Perl vs. C?

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

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