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From: Kaz Kylheku <643-408-1753@kylheku.com>
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Subject: Re: sed... (Was: a sed question)
Date: Sat, 21 Dec 2024 03:57:20 -0000 (UTC)
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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:
> ...
>>
>>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:
>>
>>https://github.com/shinh/sedlisp/blob/master/sedlisp.sed
>>
>>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?)"
>
> Exactly.  Well said and well put.
>
> (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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