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Oh Oh SHAPES! SHAPES!
I Gots to touch them Frist!
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Holdover from the 80's perhaps? Ascii hell?
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:-)
I see OO-bies.
And it DID hurt my eyes when I saw it for the FRIST time...
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(too late, took a while to write it)
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This is how I would be implementation on embeded system with no file system.
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You sir, have made my day. I would love to see the twisted logic to turn this string array into (I assume) some sort of bitmap mask.
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TRWTF is programming languages that make 0's different colors than 1's.
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It made me think of my early C-64 adventures when I was in 5th grade.
It's not phenomenally WTF but it does look juvenile.
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I'm disappointed by how prosaic those images turned out to be. Number 5 was quite cute, though.
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You're'nt even joking are you?
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This looks like a copy-paste of the X11 bitmap format. Ain't it great? You can see and edit the shape directly in the text editor, and check in to the version control as text.
CAPTCHA: jugis
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That's so inefficient. I remember back in the day when you'd do that like this:
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or something like that I would imagine
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This is best practice for storing ASCII bitmaps.
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Oops, no, TRWTF is that they are not properly split by lines.
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Amateur.
CATCHA: nobis -- you thought you were an advanced software engineer, but have demonstrated you're only a nobis
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who wouldn't?
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It would make a lot more sense if the code laid out the bitmap with the same widths as the data. For example, image 6 is a 25x25 bitmap which looks like a clover. Sadly, the text gets stretched out here, but imagine without the huge spaces on the line breaks:
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Must. Not. Feed. Troll.
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What were you expecting, a cock-and-balls?
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banner FIRST | sed 's/ /0/g'| sed 's/X/1/g'
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I also love how they re-use the variable shape to start out as a character, then turns into an untyped array nods
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This is mazesmith http://mazesmith.sourceforge.net/mazesmith.htm
Click advanced, mess with the shapes
there isn't a single comment with "the real wtf" yet, I am disappointed in you all
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And TRWTF is not using a switch, duh.
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Yes there was. Weren't you paying attention? It had to do with the color of 1s and 0s...
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Isn't this pretty much what the XBM image format is?
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banner FIRST | sed 's/ /0/g;s/X/1/g'
Less processes, more performance!
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I take it the program author never heard of image files?
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And that's a loan word. The word is "extension cord".
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Nagesh... is there any chance of you ever completing a non-trivial English sentence without error?
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I think you'll find that was either the IDE or whoever marked up the post, nothing to do with the programming language.
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Oh, he's not the original one?
Well, real or not, that comment is still just as irritating. Possibly more so, now that I'm aware its probably irritating on purpose.
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Aren't most comments irritating on purpose?