The site offers https but is broken when using it. It shows no questions.
Yes, httpseverywhere breaks it here...
What's That Programming Language?
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Re: What's That Programming Language?
#62That 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.
It is also broken on TLS. But to be fair, the ? text says " If it seems borked, your guess is wrong. "
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#63Earlier quoted context omitted.
It's unusual, but really quick to use with just the keyboard once you get used to it. And the people who are going to do well know how to adjust to new ways of thinking that get certain things done better anyway :P
Looks like a lot of people are complaining about the bad user interface which seems too clever for its own good. But what do they know? The emperor is naked, man!
At the moment, no.
Re: What's That Programming Language?
#64wow... this was actually harder then the language game I saw earlier. I don't think I've even seen 90% of these. And most of them look so similar it's hard to pick them apart with such a small snippet.
D for example... how are you suppose to get that one right?
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#65Only 50%... Some language syntax are too similar (eg scheme and racket) so you need to know the libraries as well.
Goes the other way too. I misidentified Fortran of all things because their dialect is far too new compared to what I remember (more than) a quarter century ago.
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#66Earlier quoted context omitted.
Nor in Firefox here, FWIW. Pity, it might have been fun.
Click on the question mark. I'm running firefox and it works...just know what you have to do
I did click the question mark. It was the only thing on the page that appeared to do anything other than the auto-completion mechanism for the answer field.
Re: What's That Programming Language?
#67Re: What's That Programming Language?
#68Good concept, poor execution. The UI is terrible, but what's worse is that the code sample is not sufficient to differentiate the huge swath of Algol-derived languages. This is much like the impossibility of distinguishing all of the vaguely cyrillic baltic languages in the human language game posted earlier.
In the "Identify a Language Game" Game, this one loses. Sorry!
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#69I came here to chew bubble-gum and complain about the UI...and I'm all out of bubble-gum.
Re: What's That Programming Language?
#70wow... this was actually harder then the language game I saw earlier. I don't think I've even seen 90% of these. And most of them look so similar it's hard to pick them apart with such a small snippet. D for example... how are you suppose to get that one right?
well, at least for D: at the top there is 'import std.stdio;', which signifies importing one of the main modules in the language. Along with the C like syntax and writeln function, I was able to get it pretty quick. But, I've been doing all my personal projects in D for the past few weeks, so there's no surprise I got it.