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by mock-possum 788 days ago
> Piet J. (yes, that's his real name) was browsing art in a small gallery and saw a work which reminded him of a Piet program. He spoke to the artist, who claimed to know nothing about the language. Piet took a photo of the artwork (left), converted it into a clean image file using close colours from the Piet palette (right), and tried running it.

> It ran! The code executes an infinite loop which reads in ASCII characters and prints out the corresponding numerical ASCII values.

Get out of town. Get right out of town.