Re: ASCII Art

[Marc Balmer <marc@...>]

Am 12.11.2012 um 21:19 schrieb Marc Balmer <marc@msys.ch>:

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> Am 12.11.2012 um 19:42 schrieb William C. Bubel <wcbubel@gmail.com>:
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>> On 11/11/2012 09:28 AM, Marc Balmer wrote:
>>> We are just minutes away from proposing the "Obfuscated Lua Contest" (and I assume you know about the "Obfuscated C Contest" ;)
>> 
>> Have a look at this obfuscated code:
>> http://www.corsix.org/content/worst-lua-hello-world-youll-ever-see
>> 
>> There's shorter solutions, considering that if you had the _ENV or _G
>> table, and "char", it would be possible to construct the string
>> "loadstring" using the string metatable to get at the function "char",
>> and then produce characters by taking the length operator of arbitrary
>> strings. (see this post on reddit:
>> http://www.reddit.com/r/lua/comments/10f5pw/smallest_path_to_obfuscating_lua_code/
>> ).
>> 
>> So the answer is: The obfuscated lua contest is on.
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> We need rules.  And contest sections.
> like, e.g.
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> best abuse of Lua bytecode
> best abuse of the C API
> etc.
> 
> Suggestions?
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> And a deadline for submissions.  Since we just passed 10.11.12 13:14:15, hwo about 11.12.13 14:15:16 ?
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> Ok, that is more than one year ahead, a date within the next three months would be nicer.
> 

Oh, and we need a small committee to judge the entries, may I suggest 

Patrick Rapin (because he started it all)
Roberto (because he wrote Lua with Waldemar and Luiz)
Myself (because I had the idea of the contest)

?