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Thought it was obfuscated C code, then I realized it’s a tree or something

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Pretty sure it's a regex to match email address strings.

Thank you kind stranger for a wonderful laugh on Christmas!

Challenge issued.

I wouldn't be surprised if someone comes up with obfuscated C code that looks like a christmas tree and prints out wishes by the end of the day/season.

Merry Christmas!

Perl time

Exactly, looks like Perl code to me. :)

It’s tragic that having a language as flexible and unopinionated as Perl is admittedly terrible for novice programmers because Learning Perl is easily one of the greatest introductory programming books.

Let's ask an LLM as a test!

I did recently try to use an LLM to make a twinkling christmas tree quine in the style of qlobe. It didn’t get close, maybe next year!

Gemini 3 Pro gave some rather unimpressive answers: https://gemini.google.com/share/3cbcbe1fd64c

ChatGPT did much better but I cannot paste it into this text box no matter how many times I try with different formatting to get the white space preserved. chatGPT also could not figure out how to format it for pasting here.

A screenshot and a link to the resulting JPG?

Try four leading spaces?

    Test, is this monospaced?
    012345678901234567890123456789

I'll admit it does look a bit like an IOCCC [0] entry. Can someone please do it for us?

[0]: https://www.ioccc.org/

It's a red-green tree. Your task is to invert it in O(n) operations.

I thought it was unobfuscated perl code. Merry Christmas ya filthy animals.

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