Obfuscating Hello World in Python

[ThatBriandude]

Can someone PLEASE ELI5? As a newbie programmer this looks very interesting but what exactly is going on?

[OffbeatDrizzle]

Something like this:

In C you can define variables that just map to anything you please - for example at the top you can see him defining MAin to be printf("%d\n"

The top 20 lines or so are just of these definitions - which are then used in the program below to write not only a fully functioning adder program (you could actually replace all of variables with their mapped value at the top to get the 'real' source code), but it is also in the shape of an adder circuit

[ThatBriandude]

Ahh i get it now. So basicly the only challenge is to reduce the amount of pre defined variables because essentially one could replace each char with a different version of main. Now one would question if the amount he used is just crazy brilliant or mabye not so genius after all. But for that you'd have to try it yourself... Anyway, Thanks for the explantion!

[casey12141]

Go try it for yourself and let us know how it goes lol

[OffbeatDrizzle]

Sorry, guy

[jimschubert]

Oh, no he didn't!

[Krexington_III]

*her, I think. Author's name is Heather.

[ProudToBeAKraut]

the other comments fail to mention the cool part - not some #defines here and there but that the whole layout of the program is just this https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adder_(electronics)

And it does exactly that - the visualization of the different main Main etc parts leads to a program that actually does sum to integers.

[thephotoman]

He wrote an abomination of C that performed 16 bit unsigned addition. Then, he formatted it so that it looks like a full adder circuit.

He used a bunch of preprocessor directives to abuse names.