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Re: What's That Programming Language?

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Post by strager »

adir1 wrote: post #34

So I've been doing relatively well, up to 12 and score of 75% - but then I hit TI-BASIC. After I chose it right, the number on the left progressed, but nothing changed in the language itself. After that, kept clicking Forfeit and counter on the left increases (as score naturally goes down), but nothing was displayed where language sample should be. I am on latest Safari on Mac. I CAN HAZ BUG FIXZ, PLZ? But seriously,…

Same happened to me at "Bash". Chrome 18 stable, OS X.

Re: What's That Programming Language?

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Post by andkerosine »

adir1 wrote: post #34

So I've been doing relatively well, up to 12 and score of 75% - but then I hit TI-BASIC. After I chose it right, the number on the left progressed, but nothing changed in the language itself. After that, kept clicking Forfeit and counter on the left increases (as score naturally goes down), but nothing was displayed where language sample should be. I am on latest Safari on Mac. I CAN HAZ BUG FIXZ, PLZ? But seriously,…

Author here. Sorry for nipping your adventure short, but I caught sight of how fast the logs were scrolling, noted the HN referrer, and decided it'd probably be best to stop requesting the next code block from the server and just store everything client-side. With almost 10k uniques in ~16 hours, I imagine I've gone well over the 750 free dyno hours with this one. Oops...

Re: What's That Programming Language?

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Post by bitops »

pepijndevos wrote: post #16

It seems most people score around 50%, did anyone get a really high score? I like it that you can clearly see several "streams" of syntax. That does make it hard to find the correct C family.

I worked with one person who I think could probably get a pretty high score. He was always talking about crazy esoteric languages that I'd never heard of - but then again, he was working on his own programming language in his spare time. So language enthusiasts or compiler writers would probably score better.

Re: What's That Programming Language?

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Post by TazeTSchnitzel »

dkersten wrote: post #40
Agathos wrote: post #27

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

I tried guessing Pascal and Modula and a few more for Delphi. I was thinking to myself "what other languages look like Pascal" and in the end gave up. Felt really dumb then when it turned out to be Delphi. The other one where this happened was F#. I tried OCaml and Snandard ML and was thinking "this HAS to be OCaml..." and again, felt silly for not thinking of F#.

I got Standard ML confused with F#, then when I saw F# I got it right. When I restarted the thing, hoping to get a better score, I thought it was Standard ML... gave up, and found out it was F#.

Boy am I smart.

Re: What's That Programming Language?

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Post by adir1 »

andkerosine wrote: post #42
adir1 wrote: post #34

So I've been doing relatively well, up to 12 and score of 75% - but then I hit TI-BASIC. After I chose it right, the number on the left progressed, but nothing changed in the language itself. After that, kept clicking Forfeit and counter on the left increases (as score naturally goes down), but nothing was displayed where language sample should be. I am on latest Safari on Mac. I CAN HAZ BUG FIXZ, PLZ? But seriously,…

Author here. Sorry for nipping your adventure short, but I caught sight of how fast the logs were scrolling, noted the HN referrer, and decided it'd probably be best to stop requesting the next code block from the server and just store everything client-side. With almost 10k uniques in ~16 hours, I imagine I've gone well over the 750 free dyno hours with this one. Oops...

Awesome work, either way! Very impressive collection of language samples. It would make great post to tell us how you put this together, especially where these code samples were from and anything else of interest. Kudos!
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