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Re: What's That Programming Language?

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Post by [deleted] » Tue, Sep 03, 2013, 5:01 PM UTC

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Re: What's That Programming Language?

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Post by cgtyoder » Tue, Sep 03, 2013, 5:12 PM UTC

the_watcher wrote: post #8

Wow this is hard. Wish there was a level option (beginner, intermediate, advanced or something). I have never heard of Pike or Whenever, plus never seen Algol 8 or APL. I spent ten minutes trying to find one that I recognized.

It should be "hard." If you know anywhere near all of them, that probably means you've dabbled in lots of things but never really any one in depth. (Or, you literally do nothing else in your life but code.)

Re: What's That Programming Language?

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Post by perlgeek » Tue, Sep 03, 2013, 5:17 PM UTC

quchen wrote: post #13

Half of them look like C with one additional keyword!

And the other half looks like Lisp :-)

Re: What's That Programming Language?

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Post by cheshire137 » Tue, Sep 03, 2013, 5:26 PM UTC

The UI on this is terrible.

Re: What's That Programming Language?

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Post by _j5l3 » Tue, Sep 03, 2013, 5:35 PM UTC

cheshire137 wrote: post #34

The UI on this is terrible.

Seriously, this almost seems like they went out of their way to make an unintuitive page. Who makes a form field without an enter button? And the forfeit box covers the input.

Re: What's That Programming Language?

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Post by babo » Tue, Sep 03, 2013, 5:36 PM UTC

This was fun, played by a lone guy but within minutes eight of us jumped in, scored 59%.

Re: What's That Programming Language?

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Post by lttlrck » Tue, Sep 03, 2013, 5:42 PM UTC

Really frustrating. It less of a test of language knowledge than my monitors ability to survive being knocked off it's perch.

Re: What's That Programming Language?

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Post by valtron » Tue, Sep 03, 2013, 5:42 PM UTC

I thought this would be easier than the Great Language Game...I was wrong.

Re: What's That Programming Language?

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Post by electic » Tue, Sep 03, 2013, 5:43 PM UTC

This page is very buggy and very hard to use.

Re: What's That Programming Language?

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Post by the_watcher » Tue, Sep 03, 2013, 5:57 PM UTC

cgtyoder wrote: post #32

the_watcher wrote: post #8

Wow this is hard. Wish there was a level option (beginner, intermediate, advanced or something). I have never heard of Pike or Whenever, plus never seen Algol 8 or APL. I spent ten minutes trying to find one that I recognized.

It should be "hard." If you know anywhere near all of them, that probably means you've dabbled in lots of things but never really any one in depth. (Or, you literally do nothing else in your life but code.)

Not complaining that it can get this hard. But for someone who wants to play but goes 20+ without hitting a language you have seen or heard of, it would be nice to be able to dial down the difficulty. Maybe something based on most popular programming languages (beginner only takes top 20-50 or something?)