Challenge issued.

I wouldn't be surprised if someone comes up with obfuscated C code that looks like a christmas tree and prints out wishes by the end of the day/season.

Merry Christmas!

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a022311 an hour ago | parent | prev | next [-]

I'll admit it does look a bit like an IOCCC [0] entry. Can someone please do it for us?

[0]: https://www.ioccc.org/

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epicureanideal an hour ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Let's ask an LLM as a test!

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Wyverald 30 minutes ago | parent | next [-]

Gemini 3 Pro gave some rather unimpressive answers: https://gemini.google.com/share/3cbcbe1fd64c

	▲	jb1991 27 minutes ago \| parent [-]
		ChatGPT did much better but I cannot paste it into this text box no matter how many times I try with different formatting to get the white space preserved. chatGPT also could not figure out how to format it for pasting here.

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mckn1ght 32 minutes ago | parent | prev [-]

I did recently try to use an LLM to make a twinkling christmas tree quine in the style of qlobe. It didn’t get close, maybe next year!

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DrewADesign an hour ago | parent | prev [-]

Perl time

	▲	Jnr 21 minutes ago \| parent [-]
		Exactly, looks like Perl code to me. :)