@MDXF The zalgo should probably be blamed on the French Characters tacoscript, which is actually one you shouldn't need unless you have a reason to type french characters.
@DestructibleLemon Basically the programs were lazy bastards whou couldn't be bothered to write an actual parser, so they just made it so one character = one command.
Background
Ramanujan's number, 1729, is called a taxi-cab number due to the (possibly apocryphal) tale of Hardy boarding a cab to visit Ramanujan in hospital having this number, which seemed bland to him.
It's since known as the most famous of a class of integers known as "taxicab numbers" whic...
@MDXF I've used the sandbox once, when I needed help working on test cases. I pride myself on being able to write good challenges. My only two poorly recieved ones were from when I was very new to the site.
The appeal of quines is, presumably, the intricate interlinking between form and function. The program does something. And yet the what it does, is defined also entirely by how it does it, and vice versa.
What other interesting challenges are there of this type, where the form is so constrained,...
ASKEY robbers
You are a robber in the ASCII world. ASCII lock-key work in similar fashion as the real-world: matching ridges. Your objective is to write a program which generates a duplicate key for the ASCII locks.
Example:
A Lock is given as:
|\ |\
__| \___| \____ ...
Background
Ramanujan's number, 1729, is called a taxi-cab number due to the (possibly apocryphal) tale of Hardy boarding a cab to visit Ramanujan in hospital having this number, which seemed bland to him.
It's since known as the most famous of a class of integers known as "taxicab numbers" whic...
ASKEY robbers
You are a robber in the ASCII world. ASCII lock-key work in similar fashion as the real-world: matching ridges. Your objective is to write a program which generates a duplicate key for the ASCII locks.
Example:
A Lock is given as:
|\ |\
__| \___| \____ ...
