Talk:Remarks: One-Liners

Ideas for broadening the section [Casey]

- Fork Bomb (Bash seems simpler than Perl?)

- Perl culture

. Useful snippets for doing work (search/replace etc.)

. Code poetry competitions (the aesthetics of concision and obfuscation)

- Rhizome/Processing competition (TinySketch in 2009)

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For bomb in Bash:

:(){ :|:& };: [Note: do not run this code]

http://www.cyberciti.biz/faq/understanding-bash-fork-bomb/

Rhizome TinySketch

http://www.openprocessing.org/collections/rhizome.php

http://archive.rhizome.org:8080/tinysketch/

This competition was constrained by 140 characters (via SMS, but mostly influenced by Twitter in this case)

The winner:

float h=256,t,T,x,y;void draw(){t+=x=.3-mouseY/h/5;T+=mouseX/h*x-x;noStroke();for(y=0;++y<h;){fill(h-y,85);rect(0,h+y,h*2,1);x=h/y+t;fill(x%20*9,85);x=T+noise(x/99)*60-30;rect(h-x*y-2*y,h+y,y*4,1);}}

One-liners are possible in programming languages that are flexible with white space because multiple lines of code can be put into a single line. In contrast, a language like Python which enforces line breaks to format the code has less potential.

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