Best Small Program
NATORI Shin Univ. of Tokyo Rigakubu 7-goukan 311 Hongou 7-3-1, Bunkyou-ku, Tokyo Japan
To build:
make
Cody Boone Ferguson fixed this for modern compilers. Depending on the compiler it would either segfault when run or not compile at all (gcc and clang respectively). Thank you Cody for your assistance!
To run:
./natori
Try:
echo "Do or do not. There is no try."
Judges' remarks:
Here is a nice compact program that changes with the phase of the moon. Can you figure out how it does it?
The ANSI-C committee, among their multiple misdeeds, broke perfectly fun C programs by making it intractable for them to declare their own non-traditional prototype for main(). We have had uglify this program in order to try and prevent C compilers form failing to compile due to the unusual arg types of the main() function.
Author's remarks:
This program outputs a rough image of the moon in its current phase. The main obfuscation of this entry is its complicated double recursion (without any loop or conditional statement).
People living in the southern hemisphere may want to change acos(l/2) into acos(-l/2).
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