Anyone up for this?
― Gravel Puzzleworth, Thursday, 17 June 2010 10:44 (thirteen years ago) link
Hello World!
― sent from my neural lace (ledge), Thursday, 17 June 2010 10:46 (thirteen years ago) link
what do you have in mind btw
^^^ We should definitely do this. Something like, pick a theme and then write programs that fit the theme?
― display-name aesthete (snoball), Thursday, 17 June 2010 11:44 (thirteen years ago) link
I was thinking something like (one I just mailed to my nerd friends):
'in a program (language of your choice) output the first 500 characters of romeo and juliet. shortest program wins"
― Gravel Puzzleworth, Thursday, 17 June 2010 12:18 (thirteen years ago) link
(that one's kind of unfair bcz I've been thinking about it all morning, but, y'know, that sort of thing)
― Gravel Puzzleworth, Thursday, 17 June 2010 12:20 (thirteen years ago) link
There is a stand-alone constraint here, is there? What dependencies are allowed (apart from the basics of the operating system obv)? Can I invoke any Windows dll, for instance? ;)
― anatol_merklich, Thursday, 17 June 2010 12:22 (thirteen years ago) link
maybe say it has to work on ideone.com, as a sort of abritrary rule re:standaloneness/ ultra high-level languages?
― Gravel Puzzleworth, Thursday, 17 June 2010 12:55 (thirteen years ago) link
Wow I didn't even know about that one, ty! Also, yes seems fair I suppose.
― anatol_merklich, Thursday, 17 June 2010 13:26 (thirteen years ago) link
ditto, ditto
― sent from my neural lace (ledge), Thursday, 17 June 2010 15:05 (thirteen years ago) link
Where's Ste when we need him...
― Gravel Puzzleworth, Thursday, 17 June 2010 18:07 (thirteen years ago) link
"Can I access the network from my program?No, access to the network is blocked."
Ha! There goes my strategy.
― Philip Nunez, Thursday, 17 June 2010 18:12 (thirteen years ago) link
As in a strategy for a program to output the first 500 character of Romeo & Juliet? Use HTML (not really a language I know)...
― display-name aesthete (snoball), Friday, 18 June 2010 10:07 (thirteen years ago) link
I don't think we're actually doing the R&J one - that was just an example!
When should we start this?
― Gravel Puzzleworth, Friday, 18 June 2010 13:01 (thirteen years ago) link
this avo would have been great, got bugger all else to do.
eh i'm free anytime.
― sent from my neural lace (ledge), Friday, 18 June 2010 15:10 (thirteen years ago) link
I will be watching but not playing. I like tricksy programming but it's not how my mind works, at all.
(I wrote a quine once! It tooks hours of mental bleeding. I thought it was my homework assignment. Turns out my homework assignment was to write the Pascal equivalent of open (my $fh,'<','ownsourcecode.pl'); print while <$fh> and the teacher obviously thought my obfuscated trickery was a load of retarded nonsense typing.
So yeah, not getting burnt like that again, my first thought for the R+J was that a one-liner cd probably scrape it off gutenberg.org, but not on ideone it seems. But ideone is pretty neat, thanks!)
― atoms breaking heart (a passing spacecadet), Friday, 18 June 2010 15:32 (thirteen years ago) link
I'll try and think of a good one and put something up tonight, say one week from when it starts as the deadline?
― Gravel Puzzleworth, Friday, 18 June 2010 18:25 (thirteen years ago) link