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thaumaturgy on April 4, 2019 | parent | context | favorite | on: 93% of Paint Splatters Are Valid Perl Programs

It would be interesting to reverse-engineer this to figure out which paint splatters reliably produced "use strict;".

kevin_thibedeau on April 4, 2019 | [–]

Presumably one could have AFL fuzz determine the input needed to generate any desired outcome if splatter generation is automated.

shawnz on April 4, 2019 | [–]

How would you prevent it from finding "paint splatters" which are just renderings of the actual text in question?

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