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SelfGOL - I bet it is very obfuscated.

by ghenry (Vicar)
on Jul 18, 2005 at 11:15 UTC ( [id://475708]=perlmeditation: print w/replies, xml ) Need Help??

SelfGOL looks very interesting:

The SelfGOL program can:

  • self-replicate by printing its own source code,
  • rewrite other Perl programs to allow them to self-replicate their own source code too,
  • detect and report the small number of Perl programs that are not rewritable in this way,
  • transform itself or other Perl programs into cellular automata of arbitrary size and play Conway's "Game of Life",
  • animate any short text as a cycling marquee banner.
SelfGOL accomplishes these feats in under 1000 bytes of standard Perl, without importing any modules, and without using a single if, unless, while, until, for, foreach, goto, next, last, redo, map, or grep.

Has any one been on this course?

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Re: SelfGOL - I bet it is very obfuscated.
by davorg (Chancellor) on Jul 18, 2005 at 11:42 UTC

    I've seen Damian give shorter versions of the SelfGOL presentation at a couple of conferences over the last few years. It's a very scary piece of code :)

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Re: SelfGOL - I bet it is very obfuscated.
by McDarren (Abbot) on Dec 21, 2005 at 06:03 UTC
    Some more information on SelfGOL (including the source) can be found here

    It also gets a mention in the Panther book (2nd Edition, Chapter 10). Oddly enough, in the section on obfuscation :D

    Cheers,
    Darren :)

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