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I would really like to make this challenge type work. (Full disclosure: partly because I seem to have come up with with a fairly popular challenge idea based on it. Mostly, though, because I genuinely think it's fun and novel.) But I do see a lot of problems. Answers on SE have no inherent order, and forcing one onto them just feels odd. In the case of a ...

Is this type of question on-topic for PPCG? I certainly think so. It is a kind of programming puzzle, and it has a well-defined, objective winning criterion. One potential problem is the language-specific-ness, which is discouraged on PPCG in general. However, I don't think it's much of a problem in this case, and that the Golf Practice question ...

Thanks for posting this, I had been meaning to. Note that I'm trying out another one of these. A few random notes and comments... My original notion of these questions An incremental answer question (or whatever we're calling it) has the following properties: Each answer depends on the last by building upon it or using information in it in some way. Answers ...

To achieve that, I gave all the basic, but complete, minimum information possible that could be needed to solve the problem I disagree, but assuming for the sake of argument that it's true... So my question: is mandatory for all the challenges to give complete specifications of the problem, diagrams to every little detail if that means to almost give the ...

Let me begin with my experience with that question: I ignored the answers and had a quick take at the challenges alone. Given that there were already many answers and I wasn’t keen on counting, I just started comparing my solutions to those in the existing answers, so I could feel happy about the ones I got “right” and learn something from the others. ...

I'm not sure how relevant this may be, but there recently appeared a spontaneous acronym acrostic. So there's definitely a desire among the community for something more collaborative. These challenges achieve that, so get some wagons for this band.

I think this can be extended to nearly all esoteric programming languages. While regular languages strive for conciseness and brevity, most esoteric languages do not.