This repo contains a small handmade (not in Seattle though) implementation of the popular Asciiqarium program.
All code except the ASCII art in it is novel, as existing solutions typically use completely unnecessary language features, such as:
- for loops
- postfix increment
- interfaces
- inheritance
- Strings (who needs those???)
- Lists
This repo contains a input.txt file with all the ASCII-art. It is
loosely based on
Asciiqarium.java. A python
script is then used to convert the magical Strings in that file to more
reasonable data structures. The output of the script can then be pasted
verbatim in Asciiquarium.java to apply the changes.
Oh boy, we are way past asking that question! Some non-trivial programs are
nice to find edge cases in your compiler though. This repo also just outright
crashes libFirm in many interesting ways if you do not split up the output
into small chunks, which is always fun :^)