Jonathan E. Paton wrote: >>>>I looked on Google and cpan.org to see if there'd been >>>>a "Shortest JAPH" thread, but didn't find one. For the >>>>sake of clarity, the Japh I have in mind is the canonical >>>>one originated by Randal Schwarts, which is equivalent to: >>>> >>>>print 'Just another Perl hacker,' >>>> >>>>(That scores 33 - most JAPHS are bigger - see >>>>http://www.cpan.org/misc/japh) >>>> >>> >>>This is a VERY tall order... >> >>>I would be REALLY impressed if this is possible, using no >>>more than 1_000_000_000_000 clock cycles to find a >>>solution.
Just to save some of you experiementers some time, I'll share a failed attempt. In hindsight, it's pretty obvious that it should fail, but I felt like trying it anyway: perl -MCompress::Zlib -e'print compress"Just another Perl hacker,"' yields a 33 byte "compressed" version of the string. So, you'd need a program of length -1 to uncompress and print it. Back to the drawing board... [hris
