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Quincunx
Quincunx
7:05 AM
This is going to get a lot of answers.... I'm not sure if this challenge type is that interesting. And besides, what are people voting for? Why does my answer have +3, while most have +-0? What are we going to do when someone messes up in their answer and fixing the mistake invalidates others?
 
Calvin's Hobbies
Calvin's Hobbies
About the +3 I suppose people wouldn't have expected befunge. The edits can cause problems as you say, and I'm not sure if there's anything that can be done once there are more answers. The chain can go on though, even if it is imperfect.
Do you need to ba a mod to make a question protected? I wan't to prevent sock puppets just in case.
 
Quincunx
Quincunx
No, but I could protect it for you, just need a lot of rep
Would protecting be a good thing here?
Hmm, would this type of problem be much better suited to a chatroom?
@Calvin'sHobbies
I'll go ahead and protect it; if someone wants it reversed, they can call in a mod/contact me later/ (I think other users with protection abilities can unprotect too). I'm going to bed really soon.
Wait nvm
I can't protect???
 
Calvin's Hobbies
Calvin's Hobbies
If it's protected then people can't just make new accounts to keep answering it. That would be pretty pointless but is a potential issue. (This was just a trial q so I'm not too concerned what happens to it.)
 
Quincunx
Quincunx
OH:
Any question, even a deleted question, can be protected and unprotected, subject to the following restrictions:

The question must be at least a day old
 
Calvin's Hobbies
Calvin's Hobbies
Ah, ok
 
Feeds
Feeds
7:27 AM
 
Calvin's Hobbies
Calvin's Hobbies
Question for everyone : Do you think this challenge would have worked better if it were something like Write a program that outputs a famous quote or phrase such as "keep calm and carry on", such that the ASCII sum of your answer is the ASCII sum of the last answer plus 1?
 
Quincunx
Quincunx
Wow, that might be better
 
Calvin's Hobbies
Calvin's Hobbies
Question for everyone : Do you think this kind of incremental-answer challenge is even feasible?
 
Mark Gabriel
Mark Gabriel
8:10 AM
hi guys. does the javascript console count as stdout?
 
Calvin's Hobbies
Calvin's Hobbies
@MarkGabriel That's fine, since js doesn't really have stdout. Alert would also be ok
 
Mark Gabriel
Mark Gabriel
new answer posted. please tell me if it doesn't count. haha.
 
Beta Decay
Beta Decay
@MarkGabriel Why'd you delete your answer?
 
Calvin's Hobbies
Calvin's Hobbies
@BetaDecay It was invalid
 
Beta Decay
Beta Decay
Does that mean mine is too?
 
Mark Gabriel
Mark Gabriel
8:22 AM
i technically didn't print it, the console just returns a string
 
Calvin's Hobbies
Calvin's Hobbies
@BetaDecay Yes, but you can edit it to fit answer 10 (if possible)
 
Beta Decay
Beta Decay
Ahh okay
You should come up with a tag for this kind of challenge. Presumably this won't be the last..
 
Calvin's Hobbies
Calvin's Hobbies
8:48 AM
I do want to try more. In fact I've wanted to do a problem like this (where there is a linear stream of answers, not the edit distance specifically) for months.
@BetaDecay A tag could be something boring like [incremental-answers] or a bit more fun like [domino-coding].
 
Sp3000
Sp3000
I'd vote for domino coding :P
 
Beta Decay
Beta Decay
9:04 AM
@Calvin'sHobbies Sticking with the evolution theme, something like [blind-watchmaker] could be possible.
 
Calvin's Hobbies
Calvin's Hobbies
9:32 AM
@BetaDecay Maybe, but things aren't necessarily evolving :P
 
Beta Decay
Beta Decay
@Calvin'sHobbies It can happen ;)
But domino coding sounds like it would fit
 
Optimizer
Optimizer
9:54 AM
@Calvin'sHobbies @BetaDecay Maybe we can make a scoring condition around that too. Like who ever answers an answer which creates a cycle gets less score (or a penalty)
@Calvin'sHobbies The only problem that I am seeing in these types of questions is that answers would get less votes
like if an answer in a normal type of event was supposed to get 20+ up votes, in this , it will get much less as people tend to sort answers based on time rather votes in these questions
so defs a popularity contest is not possible.
 
Sp3000
Sp3000
:/ we got Javascript twice
 
Calvin's Hobbies
Calvin's Hobbies
@Sp3000 I only see js at 18 (besides the deleted 11).
 
Sp3000
Sp3000
Oh, 11 was deleted? Need to refresh my page
(I thought SE auto-updated but I guess not for deleted answers)
 
Beta Decay
Beta Decay
@Optimizer Yes, I like that. The answers would evolve into complete obfuscation.
Maybe your score could be the difference from the original answer - the difference from the prevuous answer...
 
Calvin's Hobbies
Calvin's Hobbies
@Optimizer Penalties for similarities could have been part of this questions scoring, but I do want to say that my vision of this challenge type doesn't specifically involve this text replacement stuff.
It could be any question that is sequentially answered where each answer is influenced by the last, and gets more and more difficult.
(This problem is starting to get difficult since we're running out of languages...kinda.)
 
Optimizer
Optimizer
10:10 AM
unique languages is a bit downside for the question
 
Calvin's Hobbies
Calvin's Hobbies
True
 
Optimizer
Optimizer
as it limits the total number of answers
 
Beta Decay
Beta Decay
Yeah... We've still got the large number of BASIC dialects though
And the esoteric languages
 
Optimizer
Optimizer
as of now. no one might be able to answer for a second time
 
Beta Decay
Beta Decay
Yeah... Is that such a problem though?
 
Calvin's Hobbies
Calvin's Hobbies
10:13 AM
Haha, until then it is a pop con by the tiebreaker rules.
 
Pimgd
Pimgd
=/ I had actionscript lined up but I took too long messing about with sign up and linking my account
 
Calvin's Hobbies
Calvin's Hobbies
@Pimgd Wait around and you might have another chance :)
 
Stacey
Stacey
@Pimgd there are tons of languages out there still
 
Pimgd
Pimgd
=D All I need is "Hello World!"
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A: Evolution of "Hello World!" (testing new type of challenge)

NitAnswer 23 - APL "Hello world!" Note there's a leading space. Distance: 7

 
Optimizer
Optimizer
@Calvin'sHobbies So now to my second issue which I commented above too
 
Pimgd
Pimgd
10:17 AM
This one prints the wrong result
 
Optimizer
Optimizer
this question is not fit to be a pop con
 
grc
grc
Hmm... Should I build up towards a C solution or just make it hard for the next person?
 
Beta Decay
Beta Decay
Would say count at this point? That'd only have a distance of two from the last... I think
 
Optimizer
Optimizer
@grc - C - No way. int main() {}
 
Beta Decay
Beta Decay
@optimizer Some compilers don't need that
 
Optimizer
Optimizer
10:18 AM
@Calvin'sHobbies - Since answers are sorted by oldest instead of votes, pop con won't workout
 
grc
grc
@Optimizer I mean include 'main' or something in a different language to work closer to a C solution
 
Calvin's Hobbies
Calvin's Hobbies
@Pimgd Seems alright to me (try it at repl.it/languages/APL).
Oh, its just the W
 
Pimgd
Pimgd
Yeah just the W
but I've seen you guys do wacky stuff before
 
Beta Decay
Beta Decay
@grc Is that setting yourself of someone else up?
 
Pimgd
Pimgd
where stuff like whitespace and capitalization matters
 
Optimizer
Optimizer
10:20 AM
@grc I see.
 
grc
grc
@BetaDecay Either, but it would probably take a few steps
 
Optimizer
Optimizer
@grc anyways you will have to wait 8 hrs now :P
 
Beta Decay
Beta Decay
@grc It'd be better to do that when the question goes quiet... Eight hours is a long time
:P
 
grc
grc
Ah I didn't see the 8hr thing :(
 
Beta Decay
Beta Decay
Yeah... Nearly caught me out too
 
Calvin's Hobbies
Calvin's Hobbies
10:23 AM
@Optimizer I know a pop-con is not ideal here, though I don't want to change that now. I honestly thought 8 hours was too short, I almost made it 24.
 
Pimgd
Pimgd
ooh 25
 
grc
grc
I hope no one steals my language before then
 
Pimgd
Pimgd
I just realized that most languages I know won't work because they need wrapper code like a main or a class
 
Beta Decay
Beta Decay
Most of the new entries seem to be following the same pattern - outputCommand "Hello World!". I hope it breaks out of that pattern...
 
grc
grc
26 is nice
 
Pimgd
Pimgd
10:25 AM
26 adds a bigger output command... gonna take multiple answers to get rid of it
 
Calvin's Hobbies
Calvin's Hobbies
@Quincunx What do you think now? :P The answers are simple, but they're fun to watch.
 
Beta Decay
Beta Decay
@Pimgd I dare you to try and get Java in there :D
 
Lilac
Lilac
I was just about to put in a TI-BASIC answer of disp "Hello World!". Ah well...
 
Pimgd
Pimgd
@Lilac Post it
current #26 is illegal
 
Lilac
Lilac
posted
 
Calvin's Hobbies
Calvin's Hobbies
10:30 AM
We've been pretty good at policing this. Does anyone know if there are any breaks in the chain, so to speak?
 
Beta Decay
Beta Decay
Nope. I've commented if I've seen if there any suspicious ones but they all seem to be acceptable so far.
 
Pimgd
Pimgd
editted my answer to be AS2
Cause I know AS2 works on the timeline
All AS3 programming I've done uses a document class
 
Lilac
Lilac
AS3 works on the timeline too I think
Let me check real quick
 
Beta Decay
Beta Decay
@Calvin'sHobbies Aren't you tired? It must be the middle of the night for you...
 
Calvin's Hobbies
Calvin's Hobbies
I'm often up late but I am heading to bed soon.
 
Pimgd
Pimgd
10:34 AM
0
A: Evolution of "Hello World!" (testing new type of challenge)

jpjacobsAnswer 26 - J ]display=:'Hello World!' Distance = 5

 
Lilac
Lilac
J answer is a bit late
 
Pimgd
Pimgd
super late =D
 
Lilac
Lilac
guy must have forgotten to refresh
well he edited it
nice
 
Pimgd
Pimgd
that works?
...
 
Lilac
Lilac
I don't have a J compiler on hand
 
Pimgd
Pimgd
10:35 AM
J is ... weird.
 
grc
grc
the J one is just the same as 'Hello World!'
J just prints back what you give it
 
Pimgd
Pimgd
the ] in there though
ah but he's got a distance of 5
not 6
uh...
When you have a list of 100 languages eventually
how do you check if yours is in there?
 
Beta Decay
Beta Decay
Ctrl+F
 
Pimgd
Pimgd
Even although comments might contain the words
okay
 
Beta Decay
Beta Decay
It may be harder for languages such as F
You'd get all the capital Fs on the page coming up...
 
Pimgd
Pimgd
10:44 AM
search for ". F" instead
 
Lilac
Lilac
God, Flash takes ages to load up. Anyway, I've confirmed trace('Hello World!'); works just as fine in AS3 in the timeline as AS2.
 
Pimgd
Pimgd
... oh.
. J doesn't match "28. J"
so yeah I guess you're fkced in that case
 
Beta Decay
Beta Decay
Try " J "
 
Pimgd
Pimgd
@Lilac it's trace("Hello World!")
 
Beta Decay
Beta Decay
Because " J" would match Javascript...
 
Pimgd
Pimgd
10:45 AM
@BetaDecay no hits for that either
<li><a href="http://codegolf.stackexchange.com/a/40410/21682">J</a></li>
 
Beta Decay
Beta Decay
Really? Strange...
 
Pimgd
Pimgd
there's no characters but new lines around it
 
Beta Decay
Beta Decay
@Pimgd [J](http://codegolf.stackexchange.com/a/40410/21682)
 
grc
grc
Ctrl-F should have regex support
 
Lilac
Lilac
Strangely, it doesn't even match 28 on my computer
 
Pimgd
Pimgd
10:47 AM
@BetaDecay ahhh you edit the question, then search
 
Optimizer
Optimizer
@Calvin'sHobbies - You can change the time at least.
and you have a valid reason that you did not anticipate this good response
 
Beta Decay
Beta Decay
@grc Here
 
Optimizer
Optimizer
@Calvin'sHobbies reducing to 4 hours should be fine
 
Pimgd
Pimgd
... would SQL be valid?
 
Lilac
Lilac
I don't see a reason why it wouldn't be.
 
Beta Decay
Beta Decay
10:51 AM
It's been used on PPCG before.. So yeah
 
Pimgd
Pimgd
I'll have to wait for some time first though
=D answer 29
powershell... what?
 
grc
grc
@BetaDecay I tried a few and they didn't work
 
Beta Decay
Beta Decay
@pimgd It uses the same trick as with my answer: comments out stuff and just returns the string
 
grc
grc
it's nice to see lots of new users posting answers
 
Pimgd
Pimgd
People should start using their leftovers to add a commented main()
then verbose languages might break through =D
 
Lilac
Lilac
10:58 AM
This language is shockingly appropriate:
 
Beta Decay
Beta Decay
What do you do after a C and C++ answer have been though? It's a long step to C# and Java from that...
 
Pimgd
Pimgd
ermh
look at C's roots A/B
and maybe D
 
grc
grc
+100 to anyone who can get a BF solution in
 
Beta Decay
Beta Decay
What the hell's happened to the Wikipedia page for D? en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/D_(programming_language)
 
Lilac
Lilac
Non-mobile looks fine
D (programming language)
The D programming language is an object-oriented, imperative, multi-paradigm system programming language created by Walter Bright of Digital Mars. Though it originated as a re-engineering of C++, D is a distinct language, having redesigned some core C++ features while also taking inspiration from other languages, notably Java, Python, Ruby, C#, and Eiffel. D's design goals attempt to combine the performance and safety of compiled languages with the expressive power of modern dynamic languages. Idiomatic D code is commonly as fast as equivalent C++ code, while being shorter and memory-safe. Type...
 
Beta Decay
Beta Decay
11:02 AM
Oh.. Okay then
 
Pimgd
Pimgd
wait, you need to import stdio for c, right?
yeaaaah that's not happening
 
Beta Decay
Beta Decay
Not with gcc. It throws a warning but the program's still valid
 
Pimgd
Pimgd
plus people seem to be focused on removing characters
 
Beta Decay
Beta Decay
Eventually HQ9+ will get in with a short enough program...
 
Pimgd
Pimgd
not likely...
Hello World!
needs to be reduced to H, right?
so someone first needs to mangle Hello World! to less than Hello World!
that's... pretty hard.
 
Lilac
Lilac
11:08 AM
Hello plus plus: Hello W
HQ9+: H
 
Pimgd
Pimgd
Oh shi-
 
Lilac
Lilac
esolangs.org/wiki/Hello%2B%2B
GENIUS
 
Pimgd
Pimgd
 
Lilac
Lilac
>no compiler
 
Beta Decay
Beta Decay
Of course you could add a load of code bloat... H&&&&&&&
 
Pimgd
Pimgd
11:09 AM
@Lilac you need a compiler?
 
Lilac
Lilac
didn't read it through
I thought there wasn't any compilers or intepreters
my mistake
 
Pimgd
Pimgd
ah well the idea is I found some random language that takes "Hello World!" and prints Hello World!
you can get to Hello++ from there =D
and then we'll be stuck at H forever
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A: Evolution of "Hello World!" (testing new type of challenge)

LilacAnswer 26 - TI-BASIC Disp "HELLO WORLD!" Distance: 4 from answer 25

Oh dear. The stack has been corrupted.
 
Beta Decay
Beta Decay
Haha HQ9+ is finally good for something :)
 
Lilac
Lilac
Hmm? What happened?
oh you mean my answer was edited
okay
 
Beta Decay
Beta Decay
Doesn't the capital D increase the distance?
 
Pimgd
Pimgd
11:13 AM
erm, guys?
 
Beta Decay
Beta Decay
Yeah?
 
Pimgd
Pimgd
"HELLO WORLD"?
 
Lilac
Lilac
Ahh yeah, it does. I'll edit it up to 5
 
Pimgd
Pimgd
all caps?
many characters changed?
 
Beta Decay
Beta Decay
Oh crap yeah. That throws it out completely
 
Pimgd
Pimgd
11:14 AM
and then the stack came toppling down
 
Beta Decay
Beta Decay
The capital letters aren't necessary... Why did he edit it to be like that?
 
Pimgd
Pimgd
so now what
 
Lilac
Lilac
Dunno what timtech is doing to my answer
 
Pimgd
Pimgd
they're not?
 
Lilac
Lilac
I changed it back
 
Pimgd
Pimgd
11:15 AM
you have a ti calculator to verify your answer?
 
Lilac
Lilac
Yes.
 
Pimgd
Pimgd
ah I think I had one too
the issue being that... it doesn't have lower case
 
Lilac
Lilac
Ahh, it's to do with the calculator type
The one I've got has lowercase letters
 
Beta Decay
Beta Decay
Yeah he probably has an older one
Not the nspire
 
Lilac
Lilac
yeah makes sense
 
Pimgd
Pimgd
11:16 AM
hurray, we're saved
 
Lilac
Lilac
The stack is saved
 
Beta Decay
Beta Decay
They should make a film out of that
 
Pimgd
Pimgd
it'd be a short film though?
 
Timtech
Timtech
They need a tag for evolution :o
Anyway cya
 
Lilac
Lilac
 
Timtech
Timtech
11:18 AM
@Pimgd TI-BASIC 83/84/+/SE requires that
 
Beta Decay
Beta Decay
@Lilac Calvin'sHobbies came up with domino-coding
 
Pimgd
Pimgd
"Ahhh the dominos are falling"
I like it
 
Lilac
Lilac
yeah domino-coding is better
more visceral
I don't know what visceral actually means
 
Pimgd
Pimgd
visceral = the-squishy-parts-of-you-that-are-inside-you-ish
 
Lilac
Lilac
yeah, domino-coding is more squishy
 
Beta Decay
Beta Decay
11:21 AM
2 hours ago, by Calvin's Hobbies
@BetaDecay A tag could be something boring like [incremental-answers] or a bit more fun like [domino-coding].
2 hours ago, by Beta Decay
@Calvin'sHobbies Sticking with the evolution theme, something like [blind-watchmaker] could be possible.
 
Pimgd
Pimgd
> relating to the viscera.
> "the visceral nervous system"
> In anatomy, a viscus /ˈvɪskəs/ is an internal organ, and viscera is the plural form
so sayeth Wikipedia
 
Lilac
Lilac
huh not sure why I thought of that word then lol
I was just thinking, "hmm... what word describes the tag domino-coding?"
and somehow 'visceral' popped up
 
Pimgd
Pimgd
pizza programming.
 
Lilac
Lilac
...
 
Pimgd
Pimgd
that should totally be a thing
except I'd eat my code
 
Lilac
Lilac
11:25 AM
somehow pizza programming makes me think of a code composed of eight segments
and you can eat each part seperately, and the rest of the pizza is still delicious
i.e. the code still works
 
Pimgd
Pimgd
And layers!
 
Lilac
Lilac
 
Pimgd
Pimgd
yeah but each layer is different
 
Lilac
Lilac
ahh okay, that makes sense
I've never actually made a proper pizza before
 
Beta Decay
Beta Decay
 
Pimgd
Pimgd
11:26 AM
there's is a stable bread as the base
and then tomato sauce
and cheeeese
and
 
Beta Decay
Beta Decay
Meat
 
Pimgd
Pimgd
I'm hungry now
Hmmm meaty pizza
 
Lilac
Lilac
I know... but what I really want to do some time is, make a proper one. In a wood fired oven and everything
hmm i wonder if that could be a programming challenge
kolgormorov-complexity about decorating a pizza
 
Beta Decay
Beta Decay
Or maybe some kind of code-challenge
 
Pimgd
Pimgd
sadly that doesn't net us real pizza though
 
grc
grc
11:29 AM
 
Beta Decay
Beta Decay
How do you even program in Chef? It's like Shakespeare..
 
Lilac
Lilac
Now I'm thinking of a Chef-Shakespeare hybrid
 
Beta Decay
Beta Decay
Hmm... That's be interesting
 
Pimgd
Pimgd
I don't understand Chef
 
Lilac
Lilac
Hamlet:
"Put Chocolate into the Mixing Bowl!"
 
Pimgd
Pimgd
11:31 AM
It says Hello World once
and that's it
yet I'd expect that to be a comment
 
Beta Decay
Beta Decay
I don't think anyone understands Chef
 
Lilac
Lilac
It also makes Hello World cake with chocolate sauce.
 
Pimgd
Pimgd
ohhhh!
 
Lilac
Lilac
The italics is an attempt to make you feel hungry.
 
Pimgd
Pimgd
no
I still don't get it
yeah I do now
the ingredients are variables with values
so when you put an ingredient into a bowl you just add it to a buffer of sorts
 
grc
grc
11:33 AM
I think ingredients are numerical constants, and mixing bowls/baking dishes are like stacks
 
Pimgd
Pimgd
 
grc
grc
and the verbs are methods
 
Beta Decay
Beta Decay
How do you translate that to ASCII output though?
 
Pimgd
Pimgd
Hello World Souffle.

This recipe prints the immortal words "Hello world!", in a basically brute force way. It also makes a lot of food for one person.

Ingredients.
72 g haricot beans
101 eggs
108 g lard
111 cups oil
32 zucchinis
119 ml water
114 g red salmon
100 g dijon mustard
33 potatoes

Method.
Put potatoes into the mixing bowl. Put dijon mustard into the mixing bowl. Put lard into the mixing bowl. Put red salmon into the mixing bowl. Put oil into the mixing bowl. Put water into the mixing bowl. Put zucchinis into the mixing bowl. Put oil into the mixing bowl. Put lard into the mixing…
put potatoes
= push 33
 
Lilac
Lilac
101 eggs gg
 
Pimgd
Pimgd
11:34 AM
so it's push 33, push 100, push 108, push 114, 111, 119, 32, 111, 108, 108, 101, 72...
then liquefy? (wat)
and pour
which obviously makes things come back out in reverse
 
Lilac
Lilac
An interesting popularity-contest might be to take a recipe off the internet and translate it reasonably faithfully into Chef code that prints out the title of the recipe.
 
Beta Decay
Beta Decay
Oh, I see haricot beans = '\x72'...
 
Pimgd
Pimgd
then you get 72 101 108 108 111 32 119 111 114 108 100 33
which translates to Hello world!
 
Beta Decay
Beta Decay
Clever...
There seems to be no clear documentation though...
 
grc
grc
 
Pimgd
Pimgd
11:37 AM
this recipe names the program... then your variable definitions...
 
Lilac
Lilac
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A: Evolution of "Hello World!" (testing new type of challenge)

professorfishAnswer 30 - K /#]trac "Hello World!" Distance: 7 from Answer 29 I think this works, an interpreter is here (Kona). / begins a one-line comment in K. I've cleaned up some of the #]trace=:( mess.

 
Beta Decay
Beta Decay
Ohh nice
There seems to be a lot of clean up going on.
 
Pimgd
Pimgd
shame that they're cleaning up all the characters
we'll never get C in there
 
Beta Decay
Beta Decay
Yeah. It seems to be a cycle of near original to off a bit to near original again.
There needs to be more creativity
 
Pimgd
Pimgd
It's an evil plot designed by the HQ9+ ers
they wanna reduce it to H and make it impossible to answer
 
Beta Decay
Beta Decay
11:42 AM
Haha. I'm sure people will just invent a language to get around that, regardless of the standard loopholes :)
 
Pimgd
Pimgd
well aslong as it contains Hello World! we're safe
 
Beta Decay
Beta Decay
Haha yeah. Let's hope no one is douchy enough to screw it all up for us
 
Pimgd
Pimgd
#31
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A: Evolution of "Hello World!" (testing new type of challenge)

DoorknobAnswer 31 - Visual FoxPro *#]trac ? "Hello World!" Distance: 3 from Answer 30 Not tested of course, but * begins a comment and ? "String" prints String.

 
Martin Büttner
Martin Büttner
domino coding? that's creepy... while tinkering with source-layout ideas, I just contemplated something based on domino tiles...
 
Beta Decay
Beta Decay
11:58 AM
@MartinBüttner Haha so do you think domino-coding is a valid tag for this kind of challenge?
 
Martin Büttner
Martin Büttner
yeah, although I don't personally think this kind of challenge is a good fit for PPCG if the tasks get any more complicated than printing hello world
 
Beta Decay
Beta Decay
Yeah. It does seem quite higgledy-piggledy.
 
Doorknob
Doorknob
If we're making this a new tag, all I can say is don't let this go the way code-trolling did. It looks like it has potential, but we don't want to get too excited and ruin it. (It feels necessary to mention this because this is another one of those types of challenges where you can just stick any problem into the [domino-coding] machine and get a decent question, but "Domino coding: XXX!" will get progressively more and more boring as they're posted.)
 
Beta Decay
Beta Decay
12:12 PM
Answer 32:
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A: Evolution of "Hello World!" (testing new type of challenge)

RubberDuckAnswer 32 - VBA a = "*#]trac": ? "Hello World!" Distance: 5 from Answer 31 Runs from the immediate window.

 
Pimgd
Pimgd
distance ... 8
 
Pimgd
Pimgd
12:31 PM
Hurray, the stack is fixed again
 
grc
grc
I've worked out a path to a valid C solution :D
 
Pimgd
Pimgd
oooh
Well we do seem to pick up more and more characters
there's a pending edit for the question list
 
grc
grc
"one answer per 8 hour period" -> does this mean we can post again 8 hours after the question was posted?
 
Beta Decay
Beta Decay
@grc No, after your answer was posted
 
Pimgd
Pimgd
so how do you plan to get to C?
Or is that a secret
 
grc
grc
12:46 PM
Falcon -> Groovy -> F# -> swift -> C
and then dart & rust
and maybe onto Java?
E could slot in there as well
 
 
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Sp3000
Sp3000
1:51 PM
Here's one way to get us stuck if we can make it: esolangs.org/wiki/Hello
Oh needs an exclamation mark, damn. Surely there's one out there...
 
Pimgd
Pimgd
ooh... what does HQ9+ print?
hah, it prints the wrong hello world
we're saved from impending doom
 
Sp3000
Sp3000
Nope here's one that works
 
Kevin Brown
Kevin Brown
I'm glad to see a new type of challenge being tested out
Looks interesting
 
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