make
./dhyang
./try.sh
A beautiful combination of solving several different problems, but mostly, the single most impressive layout we’ve ever seen. Many programs have one interesting layout; this one has four.
It may be informative to run the code through a “beautifier”, to study it, but the layout itself is where most of the interest lies.
This one is dedicated to Saitou Hajime fans ^_^x
Instead of making one self reproducing program, what I made was a program that generates a set of mutually reproducing programs, all of them with cool layout!
For your enjoyment:
./dhyang
and redirect output to another .c
file.To interpret the output: the dhyang.c is an image of Saitou Hajime, which eventually generates three sources files that are images of “aku soku zan” (sin swift slay), Saitou’s motto ;)
For best viewing, set tab spaces to 8 characters, and set your terminal fonts to as close to square as possible. I hate to do this but you know, size…
dhyang.c and all its output compiles with gcc if your OS uses ASCII
character set. No file is included and all functions assume default int
return
type (a source of compile warnings).