Thank you for pointing out my grammatical failure. Tom's work is amazing, I read it and was really impressed. There are not many people who swim on this level of coding.
What I meant was that I knew that executables consisting of printable ascii is possible, I just wasn't happy that the ascii art was cluttered with symbols.
To make it more aesthetic and to create shading differences by utilizing the glyph sizes, I was looking into selecting the tallest (digits) and shortest (lowercase letters). However, the lowercase letters with ascenders and descenders make it fuzzy so they were removed too.
With these restrictions the ante of the challenge were raised significantly. In my response I was referring to that. Downplaying Tom is unfair as his work is marvellous, and I know because I also build compilers. I wish I could correct the text to make this clear but it is now locked.
What I meant was that I knew that executables consisting of printable ascii is possible, I just wasn't happy that the ascii art was cluttered with symbols.
To make it more aesthetic and to create shading differences by utilizing the glyph sizes, I was looking into selecting the tallest (digits) and shortest (lowercase letters). However, the lowercase letters with ascenders and descenders make it fuzzy so they were removed too.
With these restrictions the ante of the challenge were raised significantly. In my response I was referring to that. Downplaying Tom is unfair as his work is marvellous, and I know because I also build compilers. I wish I could correct the text to make this clear but it is now locked.