@NathanMerrill Programming puzzles are in a weird spot. Our official rules regarding objective winning criteria has at least as much weight as the (small) difference in votes between xnor's and trichoplax's answer, and they get closed by the community without exception.
@NathanMerrill well not if the community doesn't want it. and I also think if we do want to change that should probably happen before (or in conjunction with) the design. afterwards it's only going to be harder.
@Dennis I'm not quite sure how I would alter it in order to use it on my end - for example, what are the required packages that I would need to run it, what webserver does it need to run, etc.
and now that we've graduated we should probably really think about whether we want the community's name as boring (and misleading) as "Programming Puzzles & Code Golf" once everything else is shiny
@VTCAKAVSMoACE IIRC I had to install realpath, but other than that, just the interpreters. The backend is written in Bash, so no need for PHP or anything.
New Zealanders voted for which flag to replace the current one, then voted if they really wanted a change, which turned out, they didn't. I'm afraid that might happen with PPCG.
@NathanMerrill Why is everyone so surprised about this? It's write this code to a file and execute it with that interpreter. That's a shell script if I've ever seen one.
Write a program or function that listens for incoming TCP traffic on port N. It offers a simple service: it calculates sum of IP address fields of incoming connection and returns.
Program or function reads integer N from arguments or stdin. It listens to incoming TCP connections on port N. When ...
@NathanMerrill The heavy lifting is done by Apache. The Bash script just reads the POST request from STDIN and writes the generated HTML to STDOUT. Nothing fancy.
> If you move your mouse pointer continuously while the data is being returned to Microsoft Excel, the query may not fail. Do not stop moving the mouse until all the data has been returned to Microsoft Excel.
Q: How many Microsoft engineers does it take to change a light bulb?
A: None. They just update the software documentation to call darkness the new standard.
@Dennis Would it be unreasonable to ask for this answer to be made CW by a mod so that I can continue it? The user is inactive, and has been for 18 months. The post has enough upvotes for significant progress in the showcase of the language, and I'd like to add some, since I use VB.net on a regular basis. A user suggested that CW would be better than creating another answer, in order to maintain the existing upvotes.