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[–] phx@lemmy.ca 9 points 4 days ago (1 children)

You can fit an awful lot of Perl into one line too if you minimize it. It'll be completely unreadable to most anyone, but it'll run

[–] Schadrach@lemmy.sdf.org 2 points 4 days ago

Qrpff says hello. Or, rather, decrypts DVD movies in 472 bytes of code, 531 if you want the fast version that can do it in real time. The Wikipedia article on it includes the full source code of both.

https://wikipedia.org/wiki/Qrpff