Timeline for How can we attract experienced golfers?
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| Oct 28, 2016 at 13:31 | comment | added | user58988 | Ok for golf But it is not that the clue... The clue, the good is the semi golf solution show sometime from someone, that use new lines, indentation and some comment to the code... One would to reduce characters without abandon '\n' and indentation... | |
| Oct 25, 2016 at 0:37 | answer | added | Zekka | timeline score: 11 | |
| Oct 22, 2016 at 23:34 | answer | added | xnor | timeline score: 9 | |
| Oct 20, 2016 at 20:41 | comment | added | user19547 | I completely agree with @MartinEnder, I exclusively post my golf answers in C# and it isn't any less fun because someone beat me by orders of magnitude. Its also really satisfying when doing so ties, comes close to, or beats these golfing languages. Like so: codegolf.stackexchange.com/questions/86149/divisibility-test/… | |
| Oct 20, 2016 at 8:25 | comment | added | Martin Ender Mod | Also, there are many esoteric languages (which you'd consider obscure and unreadable) which were not designed for golfing. I'm sure you've seen Brainfuck before? Their purpose is recreational programming. I'm also not sure why it's not interesting to post in a normal language, if there is already an answer in a golfing language? If you're only golfing for the checkmark, then you're not going to get much enjoyment out of golfing anyway. A well-golfed Python or Java answer can be very interesting (and fun to craft) regardless of other existing answers. | |
| Oct 20, 2016 at 8:23 | comment | added | Martin Ender Mod | @enderland You might want to have a look at the question mbomb's linked answer belongs to. We're very much aware that people are put off by the use of golfing languages, but they're not going to go away. Partly, because designing and using golfing languages is a lot harder and more interesting than laymen will give it credit (as evidenced by the above discussion). (ctd...) | |
| Oct 20, 2016 at 3:57 | answer | added | xnor | timeline score: 25 | |
| Oct 20, 2016 at 2:04 | history | tweeted | twitter.com/StackCodeGolf/status/788923810707861504 | ||
| Oct 19, 2016 at 20:03 | comment | added | mbomb007 | There's a reason I won't bother learning Pyth, CJam, MATL, etc. meta.codegolf.stackexchange.com/a/10132/34718 | |
| Oct 19, 2016 at 20:02 | comment | added | enderland | @mbomb007 ... ok? I'm not the one asking how to engage other people, you (technically your site, not just you individually) are. I'm giving you my perspective as someone familiar with the site from a lot of HNQ. | |
| Oct 19, 2016 at 20:01 | comment | added | mbomb007 | @enderland That's your loss. You have to understand that Retina isn't built entirely for golfing. If you knew regex at all, you'd know that. For the most part, it uses .NET regular expression syntax. The personal goal is not to be the shortest answer. Just do the best you can, and stop upvoting answers that are short but you don't understand. | |
| Oct 19, 2016 at 19:56 | comment | added | enderland | @mbomb007 I'm not really sure I see the difference. A language specifically designed for purposes of golfing (maybe those languages aren't golf intended languages, I don't know, I can't imagine what other purpose a language using obscure symbols to represent things has) makes it not interesting to post if you are using a more verbose language. How can someone who writes Java compete with Retina for shortest answer, a criteria in most answers here? Almost impossible. And thus really disinteresting. I think you need to accept that a ton of "normal" programmers won't be interested as a result | |
| Oct 19, 2016 at 19:52 | comment | added | mbomb007 | @enderland Same. IMHO, people should create languages for the purpose of doing something special or unique, like Martin's languages Hexagony or Retina. People who make languages that are mostly golfed versions of existing languages (Pyth, MATL) or for the sole purpose of having one-character functions are not creative. The purpose of PPCG is to get creative programs that happen to be short, not short programs that happen to be creative. | |
| Oct 19, 2016 at 14:59 | comment | added | enderland | @mbomb007 as a non-"golfer" I am pretty turned off when I see every HNQ where most of the top answers use languages built explicitly for the purpose of making convoluted and impossible to read code to minimize the total number of characters. ¯_(ツ)_/¯ That's a pretty big detraction from me being involved here with normal languages. Not sure if other people feel similarly to me or not. | |
| Oct 19, 2016 at 14:07 | answer | added | anonymous2 | timeline score: 13 | |
| Oct 19, 2016 at 13:49 | comment | added | mbomb007 | @enderland Both. | |
| Oct 19, 2016 at 13:31 | comment | added | enderland | Is the goal to attract people using golf languages? Or is the goal to attract people interested in puzzles and golf using normal languages? | |
| Oct 18, 2016 at 15:06 | comment | added | cat | @Fatalize reddit.com/r/codegolf | |
| Oct 18, 2016 at 11:25 | comment | added | Neil | How does one obtain experience in golfing? | |
| Oct 18, 2016 at 7:25 | comment | added | Fatalize | @xnor Reddit possibly? | |
| Oct 17, 2016 at 23:16 | comment | added | xnor | @Fatalize Are there sites we could advertise on? I'd be interested in an answer about doing that | |
| Oct 17, 2016 at 19:14 | answer | added | Luis Mendo | timeline score: 6 | |
| Oct 17, 2016 at 15:47 | comment | added | anonymous2 | This question should be closed as primarily opinion based. ;) | |
| Oct 17, 2016 at 11:37 | comment | added | Fatalize | I feel like this question is very dependent on the other sites you are talking about (e.g. whether you can advertise PPCG on them or not). | |
| Oct 17, 2016 at 3:38 | history | asked | xnor | CC BY-SA 3.0 |