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  • \$\begingroup\$ related \$\endgroup\$ Commented Jan 20, 2020 at 12:25
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    \$\begingroup\$ IMHO I find it a bit too bad that a single rule disallows per se most programming languages and allows only cryptic-characters-languages-created-only-for-golfing, it could be more open by for example counting the longest ordered sequence in the code. (But that would mean not counting commented characters to prevent having the whole alphabet as a comment, even if that would damage a bit current aswer) \$\endgroup\$ Commented Jan 21, 2020 at 13:57
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    \$\begingroup\$ @Kaddath I can understand your standpoint and kinda agree, but I don't think banning comments would help, since we don't have a clear definition of what a comment is. The current 05AB1E for example doesn't use any comments (in fact, the language doesn't even have comments), although there are still loads of no-ops which cancel each other out so only the code functionality remains. And not allowing no-ops kinda defeats the [code-bowling] part tbh. \$\endgroup\$ Commented Jan 22, 2020 at 7:42
  • \$\begingroup\$ I'm willing to change the challenge to allow more answers (if Grimmy agrees), but it should require a clear definition of what is and isn't allowed. Currently I'm thinking of only allowing the 256 default characters of the used code-page perhaps (extended ASCII for most languages), so 256 would be the maximum score, and you can't for example score 137,929 by using all existing characters in for example a Lenguage/Unary answer. And comments are then still allowed. But not sure if that's a good solution. \$\endgroup\$ Commented Jan 22, 2020 at 7:46
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    \$\begingroup\$ (if Grimmy agrees) I do. (Note that 256 is already the maximum score, since score is the number of distinct bytes). \$\endgroup\$ Commented Jan 22, 2020 at 14:38