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Day 7. Letter to Santa

Santa got a Christmas letter in some esoteric language. Please help Santa to read this:

????????????(????????)??????!(!)?????????(???????????)?????????!(!)?????????????(???????)??????!(!)???????????(?????????)????!(!)?????????????(?????????)??????!(!)?????????(???????????)??!(!)???????????(??????????)?????!(!)???(?????????????)?????????!(!)??????????(??????????)????????!(!)???????????????????(?????)??!(!)??????????????????????(?????)!(!)?????????????????(??????)?!(!)???????(????????????)?!(!)????????(???????????)?????????!(!)????????(????????????)???????!(!)??????????(?????)?!(!)?????????????(???????)????!(!)????????(????????????)??????!(!)????????????(?????????)????????!(!)???????????????????(??????)?????!(!)???(?????????)??????!(!)??????(?????)???!(!)???(?????????)??????!(!)?????????(?????????????)????????!(!)

IMPORTANT: The flag for this challenge is not in the standard competition format.

Solution

I quickly realized that it is relatively hard to Google the name of this esoteric language, because the program consists only from punctuation characters which Google treats specially. However, I landed on this list of esoteric languages. Skimming over the list, I found the right language - (?!).

It was also hard to find the interpreter for this language, so I wrote my own decoder:

$ ./solution.py
flag{es0langUag3_ftw!!!}