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Mimic, the Evil Script That Will Drive Programmers To Insanity (github.com)

Posted by Soulskill on from the let-the-hate-flow-through-you dept.

JustAnotherOldGuy writes: Mimic implements a devilishly sick idea floated on Twitter by Peter Ritchie: "Replace a semicolon (;) with a Greek question mark (;) in your friend's C# code and watch them pull their hair out over the syntax error." There are quite a few characters in the Unicode character set that look, to some extent or another, like others – homoglyphs. Mimic substitutes common ASCII characters for obscure homoglyphs. Caution: using this script may get you fired and/or beaten to a pulp.

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  1. A special hell by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    is reserved for these kind of people...

  2. Nice try ... by PPH · · Score: 3, Funny

    .... but I'm sticking with Perl.

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  3. Re:Never undstood this crap by Alsee · · Score: 4, Funny

    Han Unification:
    Han shot at the same time.

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  4. Re:Simple by ruir · · Score: 3, Funny

    strings sorry.