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Asciiquarium by Firmwehr

This repo contains a small handmade (not in Seattle though) implementation of the popular Asciiqarium program.

All code except the ASCII art in it is novel, as existing solutions typically use completely unnecessary language features, such as:

  • for loops
  • postfix increment
  • interfaces
  • inheritance
  • Strings (who needs those???)
  • Lists

How it works

This repo contains a input.txt file with all the ASCII-art. It is loosely based on Asciiqarium.java. A python script is then used to convert the magical Strings in that file to more reasonable data structures. The output of the script can then be pasted verbatim in Asciiquarium.java to apply the changes.

Why?

Oh boy, we are way past asking that question! Some non-trivial programs are nice to find edge cases in your compiler though. This repo also just outright crashes libFirm in many interesting ways if you do not split up the output into small chunks, which is always fun :^)