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New Whitespace-Only Programming Language
foobarbazquux writes "Introducing whitespace, a
language designed to compensate for the "white-space doesn't count" culture of
contemporary programming languages. Amaze your friends by hiding programs in
your web-pages! Astound colleagues by putting a virus in your text file!" (And for those who prefer obfuscation to invisibility, Koshatul writes "This article in the Sydney Morning Herald, tells of a new programming language which 'makes it impossible to express a security vulnerability in a program's source code.'")
make it past the slashdot lameness filter
Your comment violated the "postercomment" compression filter. Try less whitespace and/or less repetition. Comment aborted.
intellectual property law is philosophically incoherent. it is your moral duty to ignore it or sabotage it
I've found that GZIP is able to compress source code written in whitespace by up to 99.9%! This is truly an incredible advance in application development and distribution!
...at keyboards, typing forever need only hit the space and/or tab keys to create the infamous do_stuff()! A breakthrough!
Finally, I have the monkeys.. Now, to acquire the keyboards... Quickly too, because the monkeys are starting to get stank.
"...now strip down and get on the probulator!"
-Capt. Leela
Compared to war, all other forms of human endeavor shrink to insignificance. God, how I love it. - Gen. George Patton
Hit your nearest CPAN mirror and 'use Acme::Bleach' for great justice.
;-)
Speaking of which, have you seen http://www.cpan.org/ today?
$x='S24;r)>63/* h@<5+oZ)32"5cz';$me='phroggy'x$];
$x=~y+ -xz+\0-Tx+;print$_^chop$me for split'',$x;
Well, I WOULD post a source example if Slashdot's "whitespace filter" and "lameness filter" wouldent prevent it...
What's a guy gotta do to post whitespace source code around here?
At least we know, because real articles are usually posted twice.
In Soviet America the banks rob you!
Unfortunately, I'm unable to post the source code here because of slashdot's lameness filter :(
Here's a mirror.
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I just want to mention that April Fools to me has always been to make up BELIEVABLE stories that you can gloat over later - which really adds to more of the fun.
Right, it's not a successful april fools joke until you get convicted of fraud.
It's a cool paper; check it out. If you have problems finding it, just Google for "B Stroustrup: Generalizing Overloading for C++2000. Overload, Issue 25. April 1, 1998."
Forget the DeCSS T-shirts. Xerox is selling boxes of DeCSS source code in whitespace at Staples. And my department has a cabinet full of backup copies of the source. That should keep the RIAA busy for a good while.
Because we're nerds.
Is this so hard to understand? We're the type of people who laughed at three Austin Powers Movies worth of the same jokes. The type of people who felt kinship with the horrible jokes of Revenge of the Nerds. The type of people who thought Hackers was hilarious (Oooo! A 28.8bps modem!!!)
By all means, laugh at us rather than with us. It's not like nobody ever has before. I mean, they call us nerds for a reason.
Why must so many people have such contempt for nerdy action on a website with the slugline "News For Nerds"?
Karma: Non-Heinous
Well, it's what you make of it. For example, this morning I exchanged the sugar in the sugar bowl with salt and watched someone spit coffee all over the place. That was funny.
Oh, you mean jokes with, like, words and stuff ...
Did you know you can fertilize your lawn with used motor oil?
There's a buffer overflow that can lead to root access with the hello-asking-name program. Here's a patch.
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