DIS: Re: BUS: [Brainfuck Golf] Hole #3

2008-01-22 Thread Kerim Aydin
Given the way the last task went (61 minutes late... arrgh!), you may want to amend the contract to allow a time extension if less than N valid entries are received (possibly with public hints/feedback...). Also, I agree that a mix of these harder tasks with simple are good... for the last

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: [Brainfuck Golf] Hole #3

2008-01-22 Thread Kerim Aydin
On Sun, 20 Jan 2008, Ian Kelly wrote: Ideally, EOF should be indicated with -1 as in getchar(), but that's not an option here, and 0x00 is the next best thing. Plus, it's what egobfi8 uses to indicate EOF by default. Actually, when the egobfi8 interpreter reads in a -1 through getchar, it

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: [Brainfuck Golf] Hole #3

2008-01-22 Thread Ian Kelly
On Jan 22, 2008 10:58 AM, Kerim Aydin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sun, 20 Jan 2008, Ian Kelly wrote: Ideally, EOF should be indicated with -1 as in getchar(), but that's not an option here, and 0x00 is the next best thing. Plus, it's what egobfi8 uses to indicate EOF by default.

DIS: Re: BUS: [Brainfuck Golf] Hole #3

2008-01-20 Thread Josiah Worcester
On Sunday 20 January 2008 19:51:47 Ian Kelly wrote: I think the mathematical tasks may be tiring to some, so I'm going to try something else this time. The third task for Brainfuck Golf is to implement Unix sort. The input is to be read as a sequence of ASCII lines, each terminated with a

DIS: Re: BUS: [Brainfuck Golf] Hole #3

2008-01-20 Thread Buddha Buck
On Jan 20, 2008 9:51 PM, Ian Kelly [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I think the mathematical tasks may be tiring to some, so I'm going to try something else this time. The third task for Brainfuck Golf is to implement Unix sort. The input is to be read as a sequence of ASCII lines, each terminated

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: [Brainfuck Golf] Hole #3

2008-01-20 Thread Ian Kelly
On Jan 20, 2008 8:24 PM, Josiah Worcester [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What's tiring for me is the programs that are moderately complex. Try something much, much simpler. . . This allows people's skills at tiny code to truly shine. (I'm reminded of a golf round I played in a chatroom to do an