The Symbolic Links Virtual Machine

More obfuscated programming

Typing the following in bash:

while :;do ls --color -w 44 -L a/p/g;ln -snf `ls -d -- \`l\
s -l a/p/f/t\``/a/p/d/v;ln -snf `ls -d -- \`ls -l a/p/b/t\`
`/a/u;ln -snf `ls -d -- \`ls -l a/u\``/a/p;done 2>e # linus

will create the Symbolic Links Virtual Machine. This is a virtual machine whose programs are expressed as directory trees containing nothing but symbolic links. Note that, apart from the while loop, the only commands used in the above expression are ln and ls.

The following is an implementation of Conway's Game of Life:

Program output

The directory tree (source code):