News for hackers. Stuff that matters.

A comment on 93% of Paint Splatters Are Valid Perl Programs (2019).

Re:93% of Paint Splatters Are Valid Perl Programs (2019) by biztos on Friday July 23, 2021 @09:43AM (#27930548)
As a Perl programmer and painter I must point out that the programs show in this article are not smeared, and not on a wall. Nor on a Wall.

Some of them are not even paint:

https://www.mcmillen.dev/sigbovik/splatters/646f93a2d62ad819...

[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:93% of Paint Splatters Are Valid Perl Programs (2019) by ablu on Friday July 23, 2021 @06:28PM (#27936317)
The "future work" section of the paper covers the smearing part! The authors acknowledge that it is unknown whether the results translate to smeared paint.
[ Parent | on HN ]