4GL Obfuscation
I was just running through some of my old files and ran across this:
It’s a program that I wrote during my training in Progress at JKT Bangalore, in 2004.
In case you’re having trouble trying to figure it out, It’s a “hello world” program.
Output:
Pretty disappointing output, hmm?
So, In the spirit of improvement, I got to work on an all new version today.
Here’s the code:
And here’s the output:
Now, I count that as time. . . usefully spent 
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Haha, I’m very impressed!
Hi Arpith.
Thanx!
Impressively different.
You may like this, although the code is less interesting than yours, but at least its automated…
http://pdecode.webpark.sk/obfus.html
http://pdecode.webpark.sk/obfus.html
Ooo, that’s a neat trick. It’s encoding the program into octal escape sequences.
disp "~124~150~141~156~153~163~041". !!
Went thru your offerings on compiler, ASCII Artist and IRIS. pretty impressive stuff. when are you back in bangalore???
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