The Weasel King ([info]theweaselking) wrote,
@ 2008-07-24 10:33:00
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Some people have WAY too much time on their hands.
Tetris, as a sed script.

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[info]rhiannonmai
2008-07-24 02:38 pm UTC (link)
***???***

"There are '10' types of people,
those who understand Binary and those who don't."

And I suppose the person who wrote that script is one the '10'.

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[info]glitteringlynx
2008-07-24 02:52 pm UTC (link)
Understanding binary is easier than learning programming. :)

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[info]theweaselking
2008-07-24 03:13 pm UTC (link)
"sed" is a string-manipulation program. A very old, very simple, and very powerful one.

This is a sed script - a series of commands, intended to be given to the sed program, to order it to make a number of string manipulations and respond to inputs.

If you run this with sed, it plays Tetris. In ascii characters.

It's like playing Tetris with Notepad, here!

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[info]ronebofh
2008-07-24 03:02 pm UTC (link)
It's not as bad as Towers of Hanoi in sendmail.cf... but it's in that ballpark.

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[info]finn2
2008-07-24 03:35 pm UTC (link)
a physical Towers of Hanoi implemented on spindled punch card decks that contain a program to solve Towers of Hanoi.

The person who built it, also programmed in octal values on a lined notepad in ink, in an era where programmers left program entry to punch-key operators and IPL to operators.

I love these kinds of hacks.

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[info]mrbankies
2008-07-24 05:24 pm UTC (link)
That is totally useless and one of the cooler things I've ever seen.

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