What's That Programming Language? • Hacker News Board

Re: What's That Programming Language?

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Post by jlarocco » Tue, Sep 03, 2013, 4:40 PM UTC

That page is really hard to use. Some times the guessing works, some times it doesn't. There's no feedback whether it's working or not. Hitting forfeit brings up a red box that covers the input field and the forfeit button.

It would have been more intuitive and less work on their part to have "guess" and "forfeit" buttons.

Re: What's That Programming Language?

#22

Post by Silhouette » Tue, Sep 03, 2013, 4:45 PM UTC

jakobe wrote: post #16

Unfortunately this doesn't work in mobile Safari...

Nor in Firefox here, FWIW. Pity, it might have been fun.

Re: What's That Programming Language?

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Post by lambda_cube » Tue, Sep 03, 2013, 4:45 PM UTC

jakobe wrote: post #16

Unfortunately this doesn't work in mobile Safari...

It probably does, it's just an unintuitive interface. Read the explanation on the page by clicking the question mark (or read my explanation here on HN in response to the now deleted comment).

Re: What's That Programming Language?

#24

Post by draven » Tue, Sep 03, 2013, 4:50 PM UTC

Only 50%...

Some language syntax are too similar (eg scheme and racket) so you need to know the libraries as well.

Re: What's That Programming Language?

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Post by tzs » Tue, Sep 03, 2013, 4:50 PM UTC

15/44.

Around 70% of the ones I got were languages I have never used, which seems kind of odd.

Re: What's That Programming Language?

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Post by thinkdo » Tue, Sep 03, 2013, 4:54 PM UTC

After some recent hours spent banging my head against a wall, the Chef language example amuses me greatly :)

Re: What's That Programming Language?

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Post by vixen99 » Tue, Sep 03, 2013, 4:57 PM UTC

Addicted to nigh-on instant gratification, I gave up waiting. Too slow, sorry!

Re: What's That Programming Language?

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Post by dccoolgai » Tue, Sep 03, 2013, 4:58 PM UTC

Thanks - this was fun, I bookmarked it. Interesting to see some languages I had not been aware of before (Befunge and haXe were two of the most interesting...don't know if I would ever actually use them, but it was cool to see.)

I will definitely consult this next time I find myself asking which language I should dabble with next.

Re: What's That Programming Language?

#29

Post by tieTYT » Tue, Sep 03, 2013, 4:58 PM UTC

jlarocco wrote: post #21

That page is really hard to use. Some times the guessing works, some times it doesn't. There's no feedback whether it's working or not. Hitting forfeit brings up a red box that covers the input field and the forfeit button. It would have been more intuitive and less work on their part to have "guess" and "forfeit" buttons.

Yeah, if you click that "?" image on the upper right, it explains how it works. Most unusual UI I've ever seen. That text field should just have a button called "submit". That would be the most obvious thing to do.

Re: What's That Programming Language?

#30

Post by talles » Tue, Sep 03, 2013, 5:01 PM UTC

Haha great. We spent some good minutes on it here @ the office.