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    \$\begingroup\$ Loving the validation snippet. \$\endgroup\$ Commented Sep 14, 2015 at 14:36
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    \$\begingroup\$ Can you explain briefly how the score is calculated, so we know how to optimize our answers? \$\endgroup\$ Commented Sep 14, 2015 at 14:38
  • \$\begingroup\$ @Fatalize Basically, the idea is to write a program whose output assigns low values to the characters that it uses, by putting them towards the beginning of the outputted string. The "value" of each ASCII character is determined by its 1-based index in your code's output. Instead of counting each character in your source as 1, like a code-golf, each character in your source is counted as its value, as described above. \$\endgroup\$ Commented Sep 14, 2015 at 14:54
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    \$\begingroup\$ This seems like a good time to use Whitespace in a programming contest... \$\endgroup\$ Commented Sep 14, 2015 at 16:58
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    \$\begingroup\$ @C0deH4cker Unfortunately that would require tabs, which are not printable ASCII characters or newlines, so that would be invalid. \$\endgroup\$ Commented Sep 14, 2015 at 17:01