Re: Fun Projects [was Re: [boost] Thoughts on Roman numbers]

From: Rene Rivera (grafik666_at_[hidden])
Date: 2002-10-27 01:21:27

[2002-10-27] Joel de Guzman wrote:

>Hi,
>
>Once, we thought about doing a morse code to ascii converter
>using expression templates and *EXTREME* abuse of
>operator overloading. This should raise some eyebrows, for sure.
>Example:
>
>std::cout << --*---**--*-*-- morse << std::endl;
>
>:-) 
>
>.... di-dit-da-daat-dat-dat-ly-yrs,
>--Joel

Funnier thing is I've actually used morse code, and roman numeral in
commercial software. I used those two and some other "encodings" to
"encrypt" passwords in some of the You Don't Know Jack games :-) It was fun
to program, and was hillarious to see a 6 letter password turn into a >70
character pass-string!

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