Timeline for Score Brainfuck as 0.5 bytes per char (because it only uses 8 characters)? [duplicate]
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| May 19, 2014 at 7:15 | history | closed |
Peter Taylor ProgramFOX Kyle Kanos Justin TimWolla |
Duplicate of Fair size comparison across languages with different source alphabets | |
| May 15, 2014 at 2:55 | answer | added | DoorknobMod | timeline score: 6 | |
| May 14, 2014 at 22:15 | review | Close votes | |||
| May 22, 2014 at 12:19 | |||||
| May 14, 2014 at 19:32 | comment | added | user16402 | @JanDvorak Unfortunately yes... but as I explained, HQ9+ won't suddenly get more upvotes. It's still a complete joke. Even without these rules it can still beat any other language. | |
| May 14, 2014 at 19:30 | comment | added | John Dvorak | speaking of HQ9+ - does this means that these rules now provide us a 0.25-byte quine and a 0.25-byte hello-world? | |
| May 14, 2014 at 19:22 | comment | added | user16402 | @kitcar2000 Good point, but creating your own language for a question is "no longer funny": meta.codegolf.stackexchange.com/questions/1061/…. If someone makes a special language which uses 16 characters, and it gets popular, then we could accept it just as we accept HQ9+ or GolfScript. But then it wouldn't be cheating, because you aren't creating it for a specific question. | |
| May 14, 2014 at 18:57 | comment | added | kitcar2000 | You can still have many functions even if using 16 characters (eg. there are 65536 different four character combinations), so people may make 16-character languages which are completely acceptable, just to get this bonus on their code. | |
| May 14, 2014 at 18:35 | history | asked | user16402 | CC BY-SA 3.0 |