Guess the Programming Language

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Post by martinaglv » Tue, Jun 17, 2014, 7:36 PM UTC

Guess the Programming Language
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Re: Guess the Programming Language

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Post by nate_martin » Tue, Jun 17, 2014, 8:03 PM UTC

I was expecting this to be a lot less straightforward. It would be interesting to see if you could trick people by writing code in such a way that it looks like it is a different language.

Re: Guess the Programming Language

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Post by wingerlang » Tue, Jun 17, 2014, 8:05 PM UTC

I think this was too easy. Maybe it should group more similar languages together or something.

Re: Guess the Programming Language

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Post by bradbeattie » Tue, Jun 17, 2014, 8:06 PM UTC

nate_martin wrote: post #2

I was expecting this to be a lot less straightforward. It would be interesting to see if you could trick people by writing code in such a way that it looks like it is a different language.

"In computing, a polyglot is a computer program or script written in a valid form of multiple programming languages, which performs the same operations or output independent of the programming language used to compile or interpret it." http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polyglot_(computing)

That might make it even trickier if the answer isn't a set of radio buttons, but checkboxes instead.

Re: Guess the Programming Language

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Post by infogulch » Tue, Jun 17, 2014, 8:07 PM UTC

If you've done (heck, even seen) a hello world in half of these languages, you can get the rest via elimination.

Re: Guess the Programming Language

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Post by infogulch » Tue, Jun 17, 2014, 8:08 PM UTC

bradbeattie wrote: post #4

nate_martin wrote: post #2

I was expecting this to be a lot less straightforward. It would be interesting to see if you could trick people by writing code in such a way that it looks like it is a different language.

"In computing, a polyglot is a computer program or script written in a valid form of multiple programming languages, which performs the same operations or output independent of the programming language used to compile or interpret it." http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polyglot_(computing) That might make it even trickier if the answer isn't a set of radio buttons, but checkboxes instead.

Oh, I like the checkboxes idea. That could get really interesting.

Re: Guess the Programming Language

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Post by izzydata » Tue, Jun 17, 2014, 8:09 PM UTC

The php one had a <?php tag at the top of it. Just saying.

Re: Guess the Programming Language

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Post by mutagen » Tue, Jun 17, 2014, 8:13 PM UTC

wingerlang wrote: post #3

I think this was too easy. Maybe it should group more similar languages together or something.

The choices offered gave away too much, I was able to pick out languages I've never spent any time looking at, much less coding, from the choices offered. Make me choose from the whole list of 20 or more instead of 3 or 4 each time and I'd get less than half instead of 20/20.

Maybe I'm more aware than I give myself credit for, though.