@NathanMerrill I had to support that in Tiger for my compilers course back in college. It wasn't too difficult, but I think some language designers consider them superfluous.
Do-nothing Polyglot
Challenge
This challenge requires you to write a polyglot which contains as many types of comments possible.
The comment must say This is a polyglot comment.
The program must do nothing at all.
Besides comments, your code may contain no-ops from the language(s) you are usi...
@TanMath Honestly, I have no idea what to say to that but I find it hard to believe. You complained that their answer was based on yours although it was significantly different. And now, looking at them side-by-side, your code is virtually identical to theirs, and you claim you came up with it independently, although you've only edited it in 30 minutes later.
In cases where user intentions are relevant, its up to the moderators to be the judge, and we need to accept their decision, otherwise it becomes a food fight
Python, 156 112 bytes
a=map(chr,range(65,91))
s=raw_input().upper()
print ''.join([dict(zip(a,a[::-1])).get(i,i) for i in s])==s[::-1]
Basically, it makes a dictionary of the translation with uppercase letters and the input is capitalized (if everything were lowercase instead, that would add 5...
The discussion here is regarding whether TanMath knowingly use someone else's code without attribution after downvoting the post and telling the poster that it used his same algorithm. That prompted the user to delete his own post.
@Rainbolt Granted, TanMath didn't accuse him of stealing the algorithm but rather of using the same algorithm. The user could very well have come up with it independently.
@AlexA. no... the deal is he has the same algorithm, just golfed down more... typically people comment on an answer helping the answerer on how to golf the answer down but this guys posted a seperate answer
@AlexA. they do, but if you have an Oyster card your rate is capped at the cost for a day travelcard anyway. the question is how many zones you need to travel through (quite a few, because I used Heathrow in the code... there might be even something further out on the Metropolitan line), and more importantly how many days it would actually take to do the trip.
@Rainbolt This is related to a discussion the moderators had regarding comments that suggest improvements. If someone mentions an improvement in a comment and it's incorporated into the post, the comment suggesting the improvement can be deleted if the user was credited. Otherwise the comment shouldn't be deleted.
@TanMath I'd have been happy if you either 1) didn't steal and didn't attribute or 2) did steal and did attribute. Since you did neither of those, no, I am not happy.
Your task is to create an algorithm/programme which takes a black and white outline image (creative commons example images below) and fill it in with colour.
For example:
As you can see I am clearly an artist of a superior calibre when it comes to MS Paint. It is up to you how you section off ...
If you recite the two options that I gave you earlier that would make me happy, then I will tell you if what you are planning to do will make me happy.
The attribution isn't the most important thing here. If I copy the source code of google, release a search engine called eridansgoogle.com, and say that the original code was by Google, I'm still going to get a cease and desist. Besides, for beginning programmers such as myself, it's good to see how one method (yours) can be shortened into another method (Artyer's).
@TanMath Not my place to suggest, but rolling back to the 156 version and trying to better that with original methods seems like a possibility. I'm not a mod, nor do I have definitive knowledge of what to do, but perhaps that idea should be considered. But don't delete.
Minigolf: Given two input strings of equal length containing letters and whitespace ONLY, convert the letters to numbers with A=1, B=2, etc Z=26, add the corresponding letters together, take mod 26, and convert back to letters
Do-nothing Polyglot
Challenge
This challenge requires you to write a polyglot which contains as many types of comments possible.
The comment must say This is a polyglot comment.
The program must do nothing at all.
Besides comments, your code may contain no-ops from the language(s) you are usi...
Your task is to create an algorithm/programme which takes a black and white outline image (creative commons example images below) and fill it in with colour.
For example:
As you can see I am clearly an artist of a superior calibre when it comes to MS Paint. It is up to you how you section off ...
