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categories: Developer Hell, web development
Tag: fizzbuzz
Wicked Cool FizzBuzz in Perl
categories: programming magic
The FizzBuzz problem is a simple coding demonstration to write an application in any language that counts from 1 to 100:
Write a program that prints the numbers from 1 to 100. But for multiples of three print “Fizz” instead of the number and for the multiples of five print “Buzz”. For numbers which are multiples of both three and five print “FizzBuzz”.
I found the following on Stackprinter (deleted Stackoverflow questions) by “ysth”; probably the best example of wicked-cool code obsfucation, ever.
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Save the above Asciiart into a file called, for example, fizz.pl.
Then run it: perl fizz.pl
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