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Apr 12, 2018 at 14:10 comment added Leo Yeah, I can understand that. Well, if this challenge turns out to be well received that can be an idea for a follow up :)
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Apr 12, 2018 at 11:36 comment added caird coinheringaahing Mod @Leo While I do like that idea, I think that it's quite a different challenge to this one, so am going to stick to the current format. However, I, for one, would greatly enjoy a challenge like that, so feel free to make one if you want to.
Apr 11, 2018 at 22:32 comment added Leo Ok, I know I'm late for this comment since you already put a lot of work into the interpreter, but I think it would have been more interesting having an initial language with very few/no commands, incapable of solving the given challenges, and letting answerers either golf previous solutions or make new challenges solvable. As it is right now this feels more like "golf this golfing language" than "build a golfing language"
Apr 11, 2018 at 14:16 comment added user202729 But the scores are strictly decreasing anyway...
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Apr 11, 2018 at 0:01 comment added caird coinheringaahing Mod @user202729 Obviously, if the user isn't active on the site, for whatever reason, they don't have to edit in the golfs. That rule is mainly in place to prevent people from posting Lenguage-esque solutions to make it easier for the next answerer.
Apr 10, 2018 at 15:09 comment added user202729 "you must edit in the golf" ==> [what if the answerer deletes their account? what if they're inactive? doesn't seem like a very good solution]
Apr 10, 2018 at 11:43 history edited caird coinheringaahingMod CC BY-SA 3.0
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Apr 8, 2018 at 13:11 comment added Jo King The total minimum bytes is 20 as far as I can tell. A quine will have to be 2 bytes, and the only 0 byte program can output Hello, World! as that golfs two challenges. Everything else can be 1 byte, though it will probably get soft-locked at 21 bytes
Apr 5, 2018 at 15:52 comment added caird coinheringaahing Mod @KamilDrakari I'm currently working on a (almost finished) base interpreter, which will include a base level solution to each task, which I will post as the first answer.
Apr 5, 2018 at 15:12 comment added Kamil Drakari Is the challenge itself going to include a base-level answer to every task, or will the first answer need to come up with 2 commands that are sufficient to solve every task (since no other commands would exist yet) as well as actually making those solutions?
Apr 5, 2018 at 12:19 history edited caird coinheringaahingMod CC BY-SA 3.0
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Apr 4, 2018 at 9:08 history edited caird coinheringaahingMod CC BY-SA 3.0
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Apr 2, 2018 at 15:24 comment added Riker I'd go for "output the sign" vs "sum of 1-n", since you haev another "sum the input" challenge.
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Mar 26, 2018 at 4:15 comment added Wheat Wizard Mod @cairdcoinheringaahing I don't see that saying that challenges must have a winner, just that you must be able to objectively score yourself. "And the interesting thing that the score alone is enough to create this motivation - there doesn't even need to be competition".
Mar 23, 2018 at 3:09 comment added N. Virgo Or another way to put it: your challenge already has a natural cutoff, namely the point where no more golfing is possible (i.e. one of the test challenges can be done in zero bytes and the rest in one byte each, if not before that point). It seems more natural and more fun to let it continue until it reaches that point, rather than cutting it off artificially.
Mar 23, 2018 at 0:47 comment added N. Virgo "every answer-chaining has to have some way of preventing it from continuing ad infinitum" <--- why? And why would that apply to answer-chaining and not any other kind of challenge?
Mar 22, 2018 at 22:02 comment added dylnan You can still have an objective scoring criterion but not declare a winner. You can decide to forgo meta discussions anyway.
Mar 22, 2018 at 21:52 comment added caird coinheringaahing Mod @dylnan Challenges must have a winner to be on-topic
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Mar 22, 2018 at 21:43 comment added dylnan @cairdcoinheringaahing maybe there should just be no winner. Then people won't be discouraged from continuing after one is declared
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Mar 22, 2018 at 17:12 comment added caird coinheringaahing Mod @Nathaniel Regarding the two week end, every answer-chaining has to have some way of preventing it from continuing ad infinitum. Answers can (and should) still be posted afterwards, just with the addendum that they can't win.
Mar 22, 2018 at 13:45 comment added N. Virgo Also, I'm personally not a fan of the two week cutoff, and I was under the impression that time-limited challenges were a bit of an old-school thing that people don't really do any more. It prevents people from participating if they join the game late, and for no good reason. (By the way I like this challenge idea a lot.)
Mar 22, 2018 at 13:43 comment added N. Virgo "It doesn't aim to complete one of the sample challenges in one command" seems a bit easy to work around. For example, you could make a command to output ello, World! without breaking this rule, or to store Hello, World! in a variable without printing it, etc. If you try to ban this, finding the right place to draw the line will probably be hard.
Mar 20, 2018 at 7:25 comment added Bubbler Added simple descriptions for the rest of the challenges.
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Mar 19, 2018 at 14:41 history edited Mr. Xcoder CC BY-SA 3.0
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Mar 19, 2018 at 14:41 comment added Mr. Xcoder As per Martin Ender's suggestion, I've added concise descriptions for the first 12 challenges, but I don't have time to finish the rest at this very moment. I feel like the post should be self-contained, having to read so many separate challenges is quite annoying. Feel free to rollback / edit according to your preferences.
Mar 18, 2018 at 17:15 comment added Mr. Xcoder Although I'd personally enjoy such a challenge, I am afraid that the sub-tasks have little to no interaction between each other, so the post might be closed as off-topic for being a multi-part challenge, albeit the presence of the tag multiple-holes. How are you going to enforce It doesn't aim to complete one of the sample challenges in one command? Other than that, I don't think the winning criterion makes much sense here. Imo the answer that breaks the chain should win.
Mar 18, 2018 at 17:05 history edited Mr. Xcoder CC BY-SA 3.0
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Mar 18, 2018 at 16:51 history answered caird coinheringaahingMod CC BY-SA 3.0