As noted in slashdot, Ed Felten wrote a simple P2P application TinyP2P in 15 lines (with each line less than 80 characters long), using Python (freedom-to-tinker). Any monks here consider that a challenge?
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Re: Is that a challenge: a P2P application in 15 lines or less?
by Thilosophy (Curate) on Dec 16, 2004 at 06:22 UTC
    Any monks here consider that a challenge?

    Someone obviously did: Molester is just 9 lines of Perl. Luckily, there is also an annoted version at the site, because the Perl is very ... compact.

Re: Is that a challenge: a P2P application in 15 lines or less?
by bart (Canon) on Dec 16, 2004 at 07:37 UTC
Re: Is that a challenge: a P2P application in 15 lines or less?
by simonm (Vicar) on Dec 16, 2004 at 16:45 UTC
    People are already golfing this down here: 415203.
Re: Is that a challenge: a P2P application in 15 lines or less?
by perrin (Chancellor) on Dec 16, 2004 at 21:20 UTC
    This proves it -- you really can write a truly ugly program in Python.