quine-relay

- My own Robot Simulator entry for one of the contests on BadCode.rocks. I fulfilled the prompt of “the worst working implementation to the challenge that [I could] devise” and won an Honorable Mention. - Along the same lines, the better-known FizzBuzzEnterpriseEdition satirically uses a large framework to solve a simple problem. - Quine Relay does something useless but complex in a way that was obviously hard to build. - The winners of the Underhanded C Contest contain hard-to-find bugs that undermine the program’s purpose but look like accidents after they’re found. More generally, Improv Everywhere’s 2009 Subway Art Gallery demonstrated to me that “art” is a perspective with which one can view any object, so I think it’s never wrong to call something “art”. But I find more artistic value in works that satisfy challenging contraints. The most common source of artistic value in programs is the way their code was optimized to be easily readable and maintainable by a human while still implementing the required behavior.