What's That Programming Language? • Hacker News Board

Re: What's That Programming Language?

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Post by bruceboughton » Sun, May 13, 2012, 6:50 PM UTC

I thought this was going to be a tool where you paste in some code and it tells you which programming languages it could be written in.

It would be interesting to see how much code you need to be able to accurately identify the language.

Re: What's That Programming Language?

#22

Post by TazeTSchnitzel » Sun, May 13, 2012, 6:51 PM UTC

I felt terrible each time I didn't recognise a language I'd used. Makefiles, Delphi and Batch files, to name three.

Re: What's That Programming Language?

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Post by jontro » Sun, May 13, 2012, 6:59 PM UTC

dewiz wrote: post #12

"That" is a form that doesnt work on ipad ;) please add a submit button, thanks

Works for me on ipad

Re: What's That Programming Language?

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Post by freeazy » Sun, May 13, 2012, 7:02 PM UTC

Brainfuck http://i.imgur.com/9DiTe.png

Re: What's That Programming Language?

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Post by RBerenguel » Sun, May 13, 2012, 7:04 PM UTC

_delirium wrote: post #20

mehulkar wrote: post #5

Doesn't work for me on Linuxmint. Can't submit for some reason?

Same here on Chrome on OSX. Can click "forfeit", but I don't see a "submit" button, and hitting enter doesn't do anything.

The app clears as soon as it's right. If you are not getting it... Well, there are things that look like Lisp, C or Forth and aren't :/

Re: What's That Programming Language?

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Post by banter » Sun, May 13, 2012, 7:05 PM UTC

_delirium wrote: post #20

mehulkar wrote: post #5

Doesn't work for me on Linuxmint. Can't submit for some reason?

Same here on Chrome on OSX. Can click "forfeit", but I don't see a "submit" button, and hitting enter doesn't do anything.

Running Chrome on OSX, too.

If the input text is correct, it is automatically submitted and you move on to the next language sample. If you haven't typed the correct answer, nothing happens and you can either keep guessing or forfeit.

Edit: Darn, was beat to it.

Re: What's That Programming Language?

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Post by Agathos » Sun, May 13, 2012, 7:06 PM UTC

TazeTSchnitzel wrote: post #22

I felt terrible each time I didn't recognise a language I'd used. Makefiles, Delphi and Batch files, to name three.

Heh. I've never used Delphi and I got that one. Thank goodness for learning Pascal in high school, I guess. (And reading somewhere that Delphi is related.)

I missed Erlang, even though I have a copy of Programming Erlang somewhere. Guess it didn't take.

Re: What's That Programming Language?

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Post by Edootjuh » Sun, May 13, 2012, 7:07 PM UTC

mehulkar wrote: post #5

Doesn't work for me on Linuxmint. Can't submit for some reason?

It auto-submits when you type the right language.

Re: What's That Programming Language?

#29

Post by Edootjuh » Sun, May 13, 2012, 7:07 PM UTC

21/75. It returns undefined after 75.

Re: What's That Programming Language?

#30

Post by 2ck » Sun, May 13, 2012, 7:08 PM UTC

"Oh, you can identify 33 programming languages at a glance? Aren't you clever."