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Re:Yahoo Logo ASCII Animation in 462 bytes of C (2011) by userbinator on Wednesday October 21, 2015 @10:22PM (#10430075)
Even if you run a formatter over the source and rename the variables to some longer names, these tiny programs are still algorithmically impressive. Otherwise they'd be nearly trivial to generate from bigger ones by running minifiers on them.
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Re:Yahoo Logo ASCII Animation in 462 bytes of C (2011) by agumonkey on Wednesday October 21, 2015 @10:53PM (#10430169)
Many where like minimally functioning PoC. When I thought about raytracing I always assumed large code base. Watching the bare principle in a snippet is pretty awesome.
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