Previous discussions: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2651745, http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2847177

I hate to do this, but it has already been posted 6 months ago: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2847177

What is the best way to approach this obfuscated code:

http://www.asciiflow.com/asciiflow/asciiflow.nocache.js

I feel like there are better deobfuscation tactics than those mentioned here:

http://handlers.sans.org/dwesemann/decode/index.html

Would pay real $$$ to have this as an add on to Visual Studio. It doesnt seem like we will get embeddable pictures or diagrams for source code so I might as well embrace source crafted from only the finest ASCII...

Technically, this is most impressive...

vim: http://www.vim.org/scripts/script.php?script_id=40 emacs (linked in a different comment): http://www.cinsk.org/emacs/emacs-artist.html

This also http://www.jave.de/

I love it!

I hate to do this, but "Emacs had it first"

Cf. http://www.cinsk.org/emacs/emacs-artist.html