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I agree, that's v cool :)

On Sat, Dec 20, 2008 at 6:54 PM, Joshua Ballanco <jballanc / gmail.com> wrote:

> I feel compelled to express my sheer amazement. Thank you, Glen, you have
> made my holiday!
>
> - Josh
>
>
> On Dec 20, 2008, at 2:33 AM, Glen F. Pankow wrote:
>
>  Matthew Moss wrote:
>>
>>> ## Dreaming of a Ruby Christmas (#187)
>>> It's six more days of Advent, and then... Christmas! Your task is to
>>> create a Ruby script that celebrates Christmas. Create a virtual, ASCII
>>> Christmas tree completely with blinking lights. Or a countdown calendar 'til
>>> December 25th. Or a script that generates the lyrics to _The Twelve Days of
>>> Christmas_. Or whatever you like: some Christmas creativity.
>>> And...  Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!!!
>>>
>>
>> Whenever I wrap Matzmas presents the wrapping turns out extremely
>> lumpy, crinkly, and stuck with gobs of tape everywhere, and the
>> contents are always disappointing.  This script is no exception.
>>
>> Take the stuff between the '----- cut here -----' lines and save it in
>> a file, e.g. 'matzmas.rb'.  Feed it to ruby, e.g., 'ruby matzmas.rb'.
>>
>> Please don't try to learn anything from this code!
>>
>> - Glen
>>
>> ----- cut here -----
>>
>>              ###  M E R R Y   M A T Z M A S  ###
>>
>>                            "/|"\
>>                        "/wl)e";eval(\
>>                           "A | A"\
>>                          "A  |  A"\
>>                              \
>>                           "InHhL"\
>>                          ",Z,%w{-"\
>>                         ",Y&/LH,L*"\
>>                        "cCnd,Hh&/d,"\
>>                       "YCB/Hh,Y&YHh,"\
>>                      "L&xHh,L*v*nHh,*"\
>>                     "&ghHh,n&nHh,H*nHh"\
>>                    ",*q*v*nHh,Hw*qv*Hh}"\
>>                   "Iq&n*L,Z,[,n&qK,n&qK,"\
>>                  "@TwC,LH/&ng,gLBbL@K,@Th"\
>>                 "/**,YC/k*d,Hh/*QdL@K,@FCB"\
>>                "/,cQqq&ng,
cL@K,@F&v*,RBb"\
>>               "y,g*mL!@K,@S&x,mQ/LhQqL,dBm\
>>              "ng@K,@S*v*n,dBckL,Q-Hyg@K,@E"\
>>             "&ghH,d&/L,Q-gqCbb&ng@K,@N&n*,/Qng"\
>>            "*L,LH*ng@K,@T*n,H/yL,Q-cQHch&ng@"\
>>           "K,@Eq*v*n,&CL,&ng@K,@Tw*qv*,mCnk*y"\
>>          "L,ch&ng@,]IDAJJA2)J*Qch,dC,U&UInH"\
>>         ",@\nOn,Hh*,\#{nHhL[&]},dQy,CY,MQHzmQL,my,"\
>>        "H/B*,qCv*,gQv*,HC,m*:\n@I&JdCwnHCD2),dC,UjU"\
>>       "InH,@,,,\#{q&n*L[j]}\n@I*ndInHDD&,ZZ,A)"\
>>                           "?,@,,"\
>>                           ",G@,:"\
>>                           ",@,,,"\
>>                           "Gnd,Q"\
>>                           "@)I\
>>             "&nH,@,n*w,v*/L&Cn,CY,RBby!\n@I*nd"\
>>              "I".tr(' ID/VHLYGBqCA&|*UQJK,',
>>                '+;(r/tsfAulo1i8e|a.p '))
>>
>> ----- cut here -----
>>
>>
>
>

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