What's That Programming Language? • Hacker News Board

turshija wrote: post #59

bitops wrote: post #45

It'd be fun to see the complete list of languages. I was clicking 'Forfeit' to see if Mercury was included.

You can see the list of languages in .js file stored in `langs` variable: http://wtpl.heroku.com/js/engine.js

What with that link just sitting there out in the open, I want to clarify that it's transpiled CoffeeScript and that the original[1] is far more sane.

[1] http://wtpl.heroku.com/js/engine.coffee

Re: What's That Programming Language?

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Post by zbowling » Sun, May 13, 2012, 8:37 PM UTC

fullmoon wrote: post #10

The Lisps sure aren't easy

I wish I could just type "Lisp" and get half credit.

Re: What's That Programming Language?

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Post by zbowling » Sun, May 13, 2012, 8:38 PM UTC

andkerosine wrote: post #61

colinmarc wrote: post #55

That last language is REALLY concise.

Which do you mean? They're scrambled randomly at the start.

the really undefined language.

Re: What's That Programming Language?

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Post by zbowling » Sun, May 13, 2012, 8:40 PM UTC

andkerosine wrote: post #64

turshija wrote: post #59

Earlier quoted context omitted.

You can see the list of languages in .js file stored in `langs` variable: http://wtpl.heroku.com/js/engine.js

What with that link just sitting there out in the open, I want to clarify that it's transpiled CoffeeScript and that the original[1] is far more sane. [1] http://wtpl.heroku.com/js/engine.coffee

"transpiled" is not a word found in any dictionary I know.

Re: What's That Programming Language?

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Post by robert_nsu » Sun, May 13, 2012, 8:45 PM UTC

Apparently I suck pretty bad. I got ML, Ocaml, and F# confused.

Re: What's That Programming Language?

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Post by andkerosine » Sun, May 13, 2012, 8:52 PM UTC

zbowling wrote: post #67

andkerosine wrote: post #64

Earlier quoted context omitted.

What with that link just sitting there out in the open, I want to clarify that it's transpiled CoffeeScript and that the original[1] is far more sane. [1] http://wtpl.heroku.com/js/engine.coffee

"transpiled" is not a word found in any dictionary I know.

Language constantly evolves, and I reckon there's certainly enough room for "transpile" somewhere in that process. CS -> JS isn't quite translation (much of it stays the same) and it's hardly compilation (but that seems to be the accepted term), so I feel "transpile" is perfectly suited.

Re: What's That Programming Language?

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Post by zootm » Sun, May 13, 2012, 8:53 PM UTC

Tyr42 wrote: post #49

Please, if you show me a list of things, let me use my arrowkeys. Also, can you finish more gracefully than giving my undefined?

That is annoying. Also irritating is the fact that the quiz seems to stop accepting answers after a couple of questions for me; in both Chrome and Firefox so far. I want so desperately to get a score!

Edit: Actually, it just turns out (after reading the source) that in some cases it just won't accept the answer if it's wrong. I did the honourable thing and selected "Forfeit", allowing me to continue :)