The Nineteenth Byte

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Quincunx

3:54 AM

Any thoughts on this proposed challenge, or is it ready to go?: meta.codegolf.stackexchange.com/a/1027/9498

user2509848

@Quincunx I think it is good.

Do you want to review this? meta.codegolf.stackexchange.com/a/1124/10766

Quincunx

4:16 AM

@user2509848 No, but I will.

Doorknob

5:09 AM

Erm, voting on the language used???

@Quincunx I would write up a solution but I'm on my phone now :-P

Quincunx

5:40 AM

@Doorknob I went ahead and upvoted to counter that downvote. What's with these people? Python is fun to code in whether or not there are short answers out there. It is the challenge of golfing verbose languages that makes answering in them fun, not the thrill of winning. Additionally, hard-to-golf-in languages get high votes when they are answered with a good golf. I'm a bit confused.

@TheDoctor See above.

user2509848

5:51 AM

I agree.

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luser droog

9:42 AM

Anybody have an idea of what I should add next to my lisp interpreter? github.com/luser-dr00g/sexp.c

Re: this old sandbox idea: meta.codegolf.stackexchange.com/a/559/2381

Should probably add a link to: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greenspun%27s_tenth_rule

Hm.. I suppose the answer is obvious: multi-character atoms and then whatever else from the micro manual: ee.ryerson.ca/~elf/pub/misc/micromanualLISP.pdf

I think some of the same ideas should apply to the "micro manual" Postscript: meta.codegolf.stackexchange.com/a/858/2381 .... That is, the primitives require should be sufficient to implement the algorithms on top of them.

As there being a Greenspun's 10th rule without a preceding nine, ... 10 is the representation of 1 in Turing's implementation of Church Numerals. :)

In my little lisp interpreter, 1 is represented by 7. :)

mniip

10:03 AM

@luserdroog :) wow (: wow :) wow :) stop with (: the smileys :)

luser droog

Where? everywhere? I do type them a lot.

I could start using some of those Eastern ones.

Or not.

mniip

A: Proposed questions (sandbox) Mk VI (retired)

Resurrect Adobe SubScript. (May need/want to remove the "Adobe" part, I'm not a lawyer. And my mom (who is a lawyer) is on vacation.) In an obscure conference procedings volume of forgotton lore, there's a quaint little paper written in English with a French accent. :) It describes an early ef...

luser droog

I could quote the paper.

The "frenchness" bleeds through the page.

But, I suppose that part of the story is not really crucial to the task.

You're right. If I have to point out that there was a joke there, it was not a very good joke.

mniip

Uhh what's going on over here: codegolf.stackexchange.com/posts/22070/revisions

luser droog

Oh. I saw all the other ones now. Removed most of the smileys.

I must've been pretty stoned when I wrote that.

luser droog

10:29 AM

All those smileys. I was truly excited when I first saw that biblio.

I suppose I could extend the lisp interpreter upward and build an inner REPL using the single-char primitives. This level can then implement atoms however it chooses without needing to worry about the C representation, just the "single-char lisp" representation. That seems like the ticket. Then I don't have to mess with the already-written pile of spaghetti.

@mniip about that revisions view, the side-by-side doesn't look so bad.

mniip

I'm viewing side-by side too, the code seems mangled

luser droog

OP keeps omitting the 4 space indent.

mniip

/me toggles markdown

luser droog

s-b-s markdown.

yes

Hm. I think I'll just steal more from minilisp.

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mniip

12:00 PM

:( No interesting questions around

In case of absence of interesting questions, one must be made!

luser droog

There's always ... "real" work. :)

sleepy

g'night.

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Doorknob

7:00 PM

@mniip function codeGolfSE() { if(goodQuestion) answer(); else ask(); }

^ is basically my workflow for this site :P

mniip

Sadly, I don't have anything to ask :(

Doorknob

@Quincunx hm, I wish I could have been that articulate when explaining it in the comments :)

@mniip I keep a sort of mini-sandbox of my own, where I basically drop arbitrary ideas, work on any of them at any time, and take them out and post when I think they're ready :P

I have about 8 ideas in there right now

mniip

No ideas at all, for me

Doorknob

although, 9/10 of them usually end up not being posted and just deleted. it's basically a brainstorming file. :P

user2509848

7:34 PM

I have two potentials.

This one: meta.codegolf.stackexchange.com/a/1124/10766

And one that will scan Java code and convert the input/output/methods/random objects to C++.

That one seems too hard though.

Doorknob

s/hard/impossible/

user2509848

I thought so.

Maybe you could review the one?

Doorknob

sorry, sort of busy right now

maybe sometime later today

user2509848

No problem.

I just got a peer-review for my paper back. Bye.

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Victor

10:00 PM

Q: king + rook vs king

It's the ending of another well played chess game. You're the white player, and you still have a rook and your king. Your opponent only has his king left. Since you're white, it's your turn. Create a program to play this chess match. Its output can be a sequence of moves, a gif animation, ASCII ...