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22:28

Generate this output: ^ `/~\` ``/(O)\`` `.`<----->`.` ``'`'`` /-------\ /; \ /; \ /; \ <---MDCCLXXVI---> #Rules: Trailing spaces are allowed for each line. Leading spaces in each line are required. Trailing whitespace or newline is a...

Redwolf Programmed

^ I think this is a near exact dupe of the linked question

Even ignoring the fact that 50% of the body is just copy-pasted

I love this spam answer that was deleted a few years back

I think someone's even brought it up before

Bubbler

22:46

I'd say it's kinda different from the linked one but should be closed as a dupe of some other kolmo with similar complexity. There's very little pattern and it's almost just "pick your string compression built-in to win"

isthisnameinvisibleforyounowpl

> Please note that becoming a member is totally free of charge, anyone that tells you to pay money to become a member such is a scam please be aware

Quite nice of them :P

Redwolf Programmed

Especially since they'll pay you $2m instantly :p

Bubbler

@Anush We don't close a challenge only because it is restricted to one language (we might downvote though). Also tips and atomic-code-golf are both the question types where restricting to one language perfectly makes sense, so there's no reason to downvote either

Assembly is cool, people upvote, but very few people actually do MIPS so I doubt it'll get an answer anytime soon

Redwolf Programmed

> I'm not saying it isn't not a lesser approximation of it

Oops, triple negative

isthisnameinvisibleforyounowpl

@Bubbler Not necessarily, you can have a language with a small core whose basics are easy to grasp initially, and once you've done that, you can explore the more advanced stuff in the same language

I honestly wish my first language had been Scala or Haskell, would've changed the way I thought about programming from the start

Redwolf Programmed

22:58

See, a language can stab you in a good way if it leads to a sudden realization that that stabbing allows for all sorts of really cool possiblities and it results in clean code

isthisnameinvisibleforyounowpl

o.O

Redwolf Programmed

Like if you get stabbed and you wake up in a hospital with a proof of the collatz conjecture tatooed on your stomach

isthisnameinvisibleforyounowpl

I assume "stabbing" here meant having unexpected behavior that caused your application to crash, leaving you to debug it for 10 days

@RedwolfProgrammed I can't tell if you're trying to make a point here or this is just starbait :P

Redwolf Programmed

Any sort of sudden attack by a most likely bad feature or aspect of the language

@isthisnameinvisibleforyounowpl Neither, it's bored shitposting

isthisnameinvisibleforyounowpl

How can a bad feature/aspect be good, though?

@RedwolfProgrammed Understandable, have a good day

Redwolf Programmed

22:59

> most likely bad

isthisnameinvisibleforyounowpl

Redwolf Programmed

I think you can be "stabbed" by a good feature, if the language is easy to learn and normal on the surface but actually allows all sorts of really cool and complicated stuff

isthisnameinvisibleforyounowpl

Does Java's lambda madness count?

Redwolf Programmed

Like if one day you paste some weird unicode character into python and suddenly it's tacit

(Maybe that's a bad example, but if it was done well, I mean)

isthisnameinvisibleforyounowpl

Eh, that's not a stab, more like a surprise party that just so happens to give you a heart attack

Redwolf Programmed

23:02

Well, if it's a really difficult thing to pick up as a new programmer it would be a rather violent surprise party

Guys I just found such a great band name I'm going to learn an instrument

isthisnameinvisibleforyounowpl

The Mossy Stones

Redwolf Programmed

CMQ: What kind of music would Rather Violent Surprise Party make?

isthisnameinvisibleforyounowpl

A mishmash of John Cage and death metal :P

For the first 4 minutes and 33 seconds, it's just silence. Then you turn the volume up to 100% and blast some crazy loud music

Redwolf Programmed

@RedwolfProgrammed Upcoming golfing language: Ḃ,

Bubbler

23:31

@RedwolfProgrammed Jelly, 1 byte: ż

Redwolf Programmed

Interesting built-in choice

I can't see that being particularly useful compared to a lot of the two-byte ones

Bubbler

It's a dyad that zips two lists

Redwolf Programmed

Ohhh

Makes more sense now

Yeah, that'll work in my golfing language too

Bubbler

I don't use it often either but anyway

Redwolf Programmed

@RedwolfProgrammed Writing answers in a language with no code page, operator list, implementation, or list of ideas/concept of what it'll be is a bit difficult though lol

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