Timeline for Are baseline submissions serious contenders?
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| Jan 17, 2018 at 14:15 | comment | added | user202729 | @CAD97 I don't think such code-challenges (unlike code-golf) like this is independent for each language. | |
| Jan 16, 2018 at 23:21 | comment | added | CAD97 | For what it's worth, I doubt /// can do better than the answer in question. | |
| Jan 16, 2018 at 14:53 | comment | added | Nathan Merrill | While I agree that "charAt" is a good baseline, I can also see "Most common character" as a good baseline. In essence, I think that "a baseline" is any strategy that is as simple as possible. The strategy of "Guess the most common character" is employed by many answers, but the baseline answer only does that and nothing else. | |
| Jan 16, 2018 at 14:07 | comment | added | Peter Taylor | Note that one implication of that criterion is that being better than the baseline is not sufficient to be a serious contender. This is as it should be: in code golf, removing whitespace without golfing variable names would beat the baseline but a serious contender should at the very least do both. | |
| Jan 16, 2018 at 12:49 | history | answered | Peter Taylor | CC BY-SA 3.0 |