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\O/ or ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ A.K.A. "Do the Dumb Things I Gotta Do"

(respect to They Might Be Giants for that oldie but goodie song lyric from Touch the Puppet Head)

Author: OxC0FFEE (Kim Slawson)
Category: Christmas Challenge
System:   Atari XL/XE
Language: TurboBASIC XL
Len source code: 85
Instructions:
Open VCC2024.atr in an Atari emulator like Altirra or Atari800MacX.
Description:
Output the bow on top of the present. A for loop prints the vertical lines with ! characters, separated by tabs and spaces. Another for loop prints the horizontal lines, including the + characters at the vertices as well as the - characters.
Comments:
Following in my VCCC tradition, this is, once again, the dumbest way I could think to do this in Basic. Unfortunately the smart ways I tried were all bigger XD