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Re:Ask HN: What is the most beautiful piece of code you've e... by tyingq on Monday October 28, 2019 @06:32AM (#21375731)
Perl version if you don't have a BASIC interpreter handy:

perl -C -e 'print chr(9585.5+rand) while 1'

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Re:Ask HN: What is the most beautiful piece of code you've e... by pcvarmint on Monday October 28, 2019 @09:09PM (#21383421) 

  Wide character in print at -e line 1.
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Re:Ask HN: What is the most beautiful piece of code you've e... by tyingq on Monday October 28, 2019 @10:18PM (#21383733)
Oh, Windows maybe? add:

binmode(STDOUT);

To the front.

Unicode on languages made before it existed is...argh.

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