VI SOLVES MAZE (and lies about it)

Guido van Rossum guido at cwi.nl
Fri Jan 18 03:09:38 AEST 1991


ivan at megatest.UUCP (Ivan Batinic) writes:

>Therefore, the poster was not lying, it is a "Maze C-Program" in the 
>truest possible way:

>	a) It attempts to print a maze
>	b) It looks like a maze in source
>	c) Parsing the source is like solving a maze

For me it really prints a maze.  Seems to depend on how random your
rand() really is though.  Also note that if you squint you not only see
*a* maze, you can also see the word MAZE spelled out in huge letters!
Amazing, yes.

--Guido



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