Re: sed... (Was: a sed question)

On 2024-12-21, Kenny McCormack <gazelle@shell.xmission.com> wrote:

In article <20241220184059.820@kylheku.com>,
Kaz Kylheku  <643-408-1753@kylheku.com> wrote:
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Sed is one of the so-called "esolangs" which some people use for puzzling.
For instance, here is a kind of Lisp interpreter written in Sed:
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https://github.com/shinh/sedlisp/blob/master/sedlisp.sed
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The goal of writing in sed is not to solve the problem, and to communicate with
future users of the program so that they can adapt it to changing needs; the
goal is to puzzle out what it takes to solve it in Sed, and to show: "Hey,
look, I did this in Sed! Isn't it amazing? (And, by extension, aren't I?)"

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Exactly.  Well said and well put.
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(rest clipped, but should be required reading for everyone)

Sometimes that puzzled out stuff people do in their spare time is really cool!

This just appeared on HackerNews:

https://github.com/izabera/pseudo3d

A raycast first-person maze navigator, written in Bash.

(The code is pretty small and not particularly cryptic.)

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