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    \$\begingroup\$ OP you could make this more fun by requiring that users write a program that takes a string as input and outputs another program that prints the input string with as few chars as possible. \$\endgroup\$ Commented Apr 17, 2013 at 10:58
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    \$\begingroup\$ @EAKAE, how many different questions like this would actually be interesting? Many of the answers here are general solutions that can execute arbitrary code. \$\endgroup\$ Commented Apr 18, 2013 at 11:18
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    \$\begingroup\$ I’m voting to close this as primarily opinion-based due to “similar languages (at my discretion) are disallowed” \$\endgroup\$ Commented Feb 3, 2021 at 21:17
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    \$\begingroup\$ That's a fair assessment. I've replaced that parenthetical with a well-defined constraint that exactly matches the answers deemed acceptable. \$\endgroup\$ Commented Feb 6, 2021 at 3:53
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    \$\begingroup\$ Related: Hello ASCII World \$\endgroup\$ Commented Feb 6, 2021 at 11:22