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ioccc/2018/endoh2

Best use of python

Yusuke Endoh  
Twitter: @mametter  

To build:

make

To run:

./prog

Try:

./prog | tee prog_next.c
make prog_next
./prog_next | tee prog_next.c
make prog_next
./prog_next | tee prog_next.c

make python

make python3

Judges' comments:

And now for something completely different: A program whose metabolic processes are a matter of interest only to historians. It has kicked the bucket and departed to that mysterious country from whose bourne no traveller returns! This is an EX-tremely obfuscated program!

Author's comments:

                             ___-----__
                          _--          --__
                        _-        _--_     \
                      _-    /\  +-.:.:-+ /\ \
                     /      \/  |.:.:.:| \/  |
                    /           |:.:.:.|     |
                   /            |.:.:.:|      |       ___-----___
                  |              |.:.:|       |      /           \
                  |              |:.:.|       |     <   It's ...  |
                  \               |:.|       |       \           /
                   \               ||        |        ---_____---
                 _--\                       |
               _-    -__                    |
            __-         --___               |
          _-                                |
         /                                   |
        |                                     |

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