Programming Alignment Chart

int main(int argc, char *argv[]) int main(int argc, char** argv) main(argc, argv) char *argv[] LAWFUL GOOD int main(void) main() int main() LAWFUL NEUTRAL TRUE NEUTRAL CHAOTIC NEUTRAL int main(int argc, char *argv[], char *envp[]) void main() const int main[] = { 443987883, 446 113408, 4149, 899584, 84869120, 1 266023168, 181875901, 1 -1017312735 }; LAWFUL EVIL NEUTRAL EVIL CHAOTIC EVIL

A 3×3 alignment chart shows nine increasingly unconventional ways to write a C/C++ main function, from the orderly “int main(int argc, char *argv[])” to bizarre declarations and raw integer data. The joke applies the Dungeons & Dragons alignment chart to programming style, with chaotic evil representing code that technically works but is wildly unreadable or nonstandard.

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