When you run this with any argument, for example:
% perl blocks x
the program simply displays itself using all '#' characters (which makes it easier to read the letters depicted in the blocks in the ascii picture).
When run without arguments, the output gets REALLY interesting!
Warning -- this program is fairly memory intensive, so it's not recommended that you run it on a system with lots of other processes running concurrently.
Update: Note, too, that the program creates/overwrites a file called 'x' in the current directory. (Thanks shmem!)
Update 2: Also note (especially for Linux users) that the Tk module must be installed.
Update 3: A hint about deconstructing the program is this -- try running Deparse on the temporary file "x" which is created: perl -MO=Deparse x
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Re: Alphabet Blocks Japh (run in /tmp)
by shmem (Chancellor) on Oct 03, 2007 at 10:02 UTC | |
Re: Alphabet Blocks Japh
by kyle (Abbot) on Oct 03, 2007 at 16:36 UTC | |
Re: Alphabet Blocks Japh
by chargrill (Parson) on Oct 03, 2007 at 09:49 UTC | |
Re: Alphabet Blocks Japh
by zentara (Archbishop) on Oct 03, 2007 at 16:04 UTC | |
by Argel (Prior) on Oct 03, 2007 at 22:03 UTC | |
Re: Alphabet Blocks Japh
by wulvrine (Friar) on Oct 04, 2007 at 13:06 UTC | |
Re: Alphabet Blocks Japh
by m0ve (Scribe) on Oct 05, 2007 at 09:15 UTC | |
Re: Alphabet Blocks Japh
by codeacrobat (Chaplain) on Oct 13, 2007 at 16:18 UTC |