93% of Paint Splatters Are Valid Perl Programs
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Re: 93% of Paint Splatters Are Valid Perl Programs
#293% of random OCR outputs are valid Perl programs. The paint splatters are a distraction.
Re: 93% of Paint Splatters Are Valid Perl Programs
#3So who's going to write the app we can carry on our phones into MOMA and evaluate the Jackson Pollocks?
Re: 93% of Paint Splatters Are Valid Perl Programs
#4I strongly recommend that you read the linked paper also.
Re: 93% of Paint Splatters Are Valid Perl Programs
#5Do any of the splatters generate a "use strict;" at the beginning?
Re: 93% of Paint Splatters Are Valid Perl Programs
#693% of random OCR outputs are valid Perl programs. The paint splatters are a distraction.
Yes, but it is a fun distraction and kept me from my work for a few minutes.
Re: 93% of Paint Splatters Are Valid Perl Programs
#7I miss Perl. Why did PHP win again, in the late 90s? (though I'm mostly Python these days and shan't complain, there was a good 10 year stretch of PHP there I'm not proud of).
Re: 93% of Paint Splatters Are Valid Perl Programs
#8I miss Perl. Why did PHP win again, in the late 90s? (though I'm mostly Python these days and shan't complain, there was a good 10 year stretch of PHP there I'm not proud of).
Yeah... Ruby's very nice and feels Perl-ish sometimes.
Re: 93% of Paint Splatters Are Valid Perl Programs
#9Do any of the splatters generate a "use strict;" at the beginning?
It would be interesting to reverse-engineer this to figure out which paint splatters reliably produced "use strict;".
Re: 93% of Paint Splatters Are Valid Perl Programs
#10I love this footnote so much:
> This feature does enable a neat quine: the Perl program “Illegal division by zero at /tmp/quine.pl line 1.”, when saved in the appropriate location, outputs “Illegal division by zero at /tmp/quine.pl line 1.” The reason for this behavior is left as an exercise for the reader.