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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who wrote this and what does it mean?!

These one-liners make good use of the print and poke commands.  We know that PRINT was inherited from the earliest Dartmouth BASIC implementation.  Did Bill Gates invent the POKE command?




*Everything Random
10 poke 1024+rnd(0)*1000,78
20 poke 53248+24,timeand255
30 poke 53248+17,(time/10)and255
40 poke 53248+22,(time/9)and255
50 poke 54272 + rnd(0)*25,rnd(0)*256
60 poke 1024 + rnd(0)*1000,rnd(0)*256
70 goto 10



these are too dangerous and bizarre to be distributed in a book like this.

*Crazy VIC-II
10 poke 53248+rnd(0)*46,rnd(0)*256: goto 10

*Nutty VIC-II
10 poke 53248+24,rnd(0)*256: goto 10


This is too hardcore:
Commodore 64 users have experienced so many different system crashes that they can be aesthetically categorized.  For example, the following one-liner:

*Snowcrash - do not use on real Commodore 64
10 poke 53248+24,timeand255: goto 10

*Crashes I Have Known and Loved.
Also, this one-liner imitates a particular set of crashes, those involving complex writes to the video hardware:  
10 poke 53248+17,(time/10)and255: goto 10