The last but one question 🙂 To give you the chance to change more on the results you’ll get a 25 point bonus today for the first answer. And ’cause the question is (hopefully) challenging 50 Points, but no hint ^^

Let me thank you again for participation it was a great and fun thing for me and it was so nice to see more people at Reply interested in development. Imho we are a technology company and dev skills are really important 🙂

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"uoy evol I" > v
                 ,
                 :
              ^ _ @


Points: 50

Hmmm.. yesterday I thought that go was very difficult to see, but unfortunately you are much better than I thought. Today I’m really sure it is 😈

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PLEASE NOTE THAT UNICORNS ARE IN YOUR ROOM
DO READ OUT #2
DO .10 <- #1
PLEASE COME FROM (23)
DO .11 <- !10$#1'~'#32767$#1'
DO .12 <- #1
PLEASE COME FROM (16)


Hint: GOTO is as descripted “Go To Statement Considered Harmful” from Edsger W. Dijkstra http://www.u.arizona.edu/~rubinson/copyright_violations/Go_To_Considered_Harmful.html a really harmful thing. In this language there is an interesting way to avoid it

Points got this challenge: 40

Yesterday a lot of people knew the answer to the challenge: it was BASIC. Shame on you! 😉

Today it will be very hard, but because of the prizes (and to show other people, that you are the best dev the world has seen) you should try it. I would be very happy if at least one person knows it. Probably you are able to manage it, but again, very challenging today 🙂

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func cp(u int) float64 {
    c := make(chan float64)
    for p := 0; p <= u; p++ {
        go term(c, float64(p))
    }
    fn := float64(0.0)
    for p := 0; p <= u; p++ {
        fn += <-c
    }
    return fn
}

func main() {
    fmt.Println(cp(240))
}


Hint: There exists a board game with the same name, but this was not the reason to give the language this name.

Points got this challenge: 35

Good morning to all hackers, geeks, nerds and programming languages fetishists 😀

At first I want to thank you for the last week. It was great for me and I hope it was fun to you too. I’m currently work on getting a prize for the winner of this little quiz, so I have to push Marco to get a positive feedback 🙂 If anyone else want to spend some cool stuff send me a message 😉

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Type: full program
10 print “hello”
20 goto 10

Hint: Bill Gates wrote a famous letter to the developer community, cause they have “stolen” his program

Points got this challenge: -5

Thank God It’s Friday!

Have a really relaxed weekend, but at first try this challenge 😀

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Type: full function/method

sort([Pivot|K]) ->
    sort([ B || B <- K, B < Pivot])
    ++ [Pivot] ++
    sort([ B || B <- K, B >= Pivot]);
sort([]) -> [].


Hint: no hint – let’s make it more challenging today 😈

Points for this challenge: 25

[Update]The dot at the end of the last line is important. Sorry for the typo 😳 [/Update]

“This must be Thursday,’ said Arthur to himself, sinking low over his beer. ‘I never could get the hang of Thursdays.”

At least we have a nice language for this Thursday 🙂

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Type: snippet

Caramel Sauce.

Method.
[...]
Put vanilla bean into mixing bowl. Refrigerate.

Hint: the design principal of this language is, programs should be correct and delicious

Points for this challange: 15

This is an easy one today for all the wizards of operating system history – for everyone else, good luck with: Q3

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Type: full program

PARSE ARG M
call Fib M, "Fibonacci"
EXIT
Fib:
    PARSE ARG N, subroutinename
    say subroutinename||"("||N||")"
    i = 3
    a = 1
    b = a
    IF N<1 THEN         say "N("||N||") must be equal or larger than 1"     IF N>=1 THEN
        say "Nr[1] "||a
    IF N>=2 THEN
        say "Nr[2] "||b
    DO WHILE N >= i
        tmp = a
        a = a+b
        b = tmp
        say "Nr["||i||"] "||a
        i = i+1
    END
    RETURN

Hint: This language was created for mainfames, but later ported to an operating system developed by Microsoft and a company that produced card puncher and punch cards in the early days.

Points for this challenge: 20

Today it’s getting slightly harder. Since it is a full program you can check your answer by using the right compiler/interpreter: Q2

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Type: full program

import std.stdio;
void main()
{
    writefln("Hello World!");
}

Hint: The ancestor of this language has literaly the same name as this language when you execute the statement.

Points for this challange: 10

As I mentioned in the post from Thursday, today I will present the first real Question: Q1

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colours = ['red','green','blue']
for colour in colours:
    print colour


Hint: This language is famous for a detail you can also see in this little program.

Points for this challange: 5

Hey collegues from all Reply Units 🙂 I Would love to do a small challange the next 10 + x days {x | x ∈ N_0}. And the question is always: “Which programming language is it?” I hope you have fun and I hope to see a lot of other developers here in the company.

I will create a best of list. The first answer will be counted and the given Points will be added to your “account”. A full program, a typical statement, a compiler/interpreter output or an output of a well known programm written in this language will be presented. Sometimes the answer is _not_ unambiguous, but as log the answer correct and typical for the language you are the winner for today. The callenge will be published each day at 11am (CEST/UTC+0200). Please answer on TamTamy Please send your (nick)name and answer to: patrick.plattes@googlemail.com

Let’s start with the first one, which is simply a test.

Type: full program

#include <stdio.h>
int main() {
printf("Hello World\n");
return 0;
}


Hint: This program was published by Brian W. Kerninghan and Dennis Ritchie 1974

Points for this challenge: 0