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Original Usenet message from alt.ascii-art, 6 Nov 2001.
Re: Request for ASCII art of Larry Wall

Re: Request for ASCII art of Larry Wall

From Andrew <and...@ir.com> · alt.ascii-art · 6 Nov 2001 22:36 · View full thread · report
"Taliszanna" <tal...@usask.ca> wrote in message
news:Pin...@chem4823.usask.ca...
> On Tue, 6 Nov 2001, Andrew wrote:
>
> > I am an ASCII art novice. I would be interested to see ASCII art
> > of Larry Wall's head (about 70 characters wide if possible) --
> > just the head, not the body -- taken from his cartoon at:
> >
> >
http://www.geekculture.com/geekycomics/Aftery2k/fanclub/standups/actionfigur
> > es/larrywall.html
> >
> > This is for use in the Perl CPAN Acme::EyeDrops module.
> >
> > Andrew.
>
> I am assuming that you want non-converted ASCII - yes?  Sadly, I
> am also only a novice...
>
> -----
> Sincerely, "Her Poopiness"
> (Tali/Jessie Brown/Pope Dances-with-Earwax)
> http://talis_white_crow.tripod.com/
>
> ~*~ Jolt Cola: tastes filthy, kicks like a mule on speed. ~*~
>
It seems what I would really like is a specialised subset of ASCII art,
namely ASCII art that also happens to be a valid Perl program.
By tracing Larry's head from the cartoon mentioned above, this is
the best I have come up with so far (a Perl "hello world" program).

                           ''=~('('.('?').
                       '{'.               (((
                  '`'))|                     '%'
                ).+(                           '['
              ^'-'                              ).(
            '`'|                                  '!'
          ).+(                                   (  '`'
         )|((                                    (   ','
        ))))                                  .+  (    '"'
      ).+(                                   (     (    '['
    ))^                                    ((       ((   '+'
   )))                                   ))           .   (((
  '['                                ))^+              (   ')'
 )).                             ('`'                   |   ')'
 ).(                         '`'|                        (   '.'
 )).                ('['^'/')                            .   (((
 '{'              ))                                     ^    ((
 '['             ))                                       )   .+
 (((            (                                         (   ((
 (((            (                                          '\\')
 )))           )                                              ))
 )))           )          .'"'.('`'|'(').('`'|'%').('`'|(',')).(
 '`'           |          (  ',')).(      (    (   "\`"))|     (
 '/'           )          ) .  (((  ((    (    (  (  '{'  ))   )
 )))           )          ^ (  '['   )    )    .  (  '['   ^   (
 ','           )          )  .(('`')|     (    (   '/'))).(    (
 ((   '['     )           )               )    ^+              (
 ((   (  ')'))             )              )     ).             (
 ((   (                     (             (     ( (            (
 ((   (  '`'                 )))))))))))|+       ( ',')).("\`"|
 ((    (                              (          (          (
  (     (                            (          (          (
   (     (                            ( '$'    )           )
    )      )))                              ))             )
     )       )                  )))).'\\'.'\\'.("\`"|     (
      (      (                '.')))).'\\'.'"'.(';').(    (
       (     (               '!')))^'+').'"'.'}'."\)");   (
        (   (                $:)))  ='.'^('~');$~=   '@'  |
         ( (                 '(')  )             ;    $^ =
          ((                 ')'    ))^'[';#;#;#;     #;#
           ;                                           #
           ;                                         #;
           #                                        ;
          #       ;                                 #
          ;         #                              ;
          #           ;                            #
          ;            #                           ;
         #               ;                       #   ;
         #                 ;                    #     ;
        #                    ;#;              #;       #
       ;                          #;#;#;#;#;#            ;

Andrew.

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