On 04/08/2013 10:38 PM, Steven D'Aprano wrote:
On Mon, 08 Apr 2013 21:09:08 -0400, Roy Smith wrote:
There's a whole competition about writing the smallest program which
outputs the song "99 bottles of beer":
http://codegolf.com/99-bottles-of-beer
I see the top 10 entries are all written in P
On Tue, Apr 9, 2013 at 12:38 PM, Steven D'Aprano
wrote:
> On Mon, 08 Apr 2013 21:09:08 -0400, Roy Smith wrote:
>
>>> There's a whole competition about writing the smallest program which
>>> outputs the song "99 bottles of beer":
>>>
>>> http://codegolf.com/99-bottles-of-beer
>>
>> I see the top 10
On 2013.04.08 21:38, Steven D'Aprano wrote:
> In fact, I may make it a bare . so that not only will it be the shortest
> program, but also the smallest program in terms of number of non-white
> pixels.
Until someone implements it in Whitespace.
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On Mon, 08 Apr 2013 21:09:08 -0400, Roy Smith wrote:
>> There's a whole competition about writing the smallest program which
>> outputs the song "99 bottles of beer":
>>
>> http://codegolf.com/99-bottles-of-beer
>
> I see the top 10 entries are all written in Perl. I suppose this says
> somethi
On 2013-04-08 21:09, Roy Smith wrote:
>> http://codegolf.com/99-bottles-of-beer
>
> I see the top 10 entries are all written in Perl. I suppose this
> says something.
About the capabilities of Perl for writing such code, or about the
drinking habits of Perl programmers? :-)
Or-about-how-perl-dr
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Arnaud Delobelle wrote:
> On 8 April 2013 17:20, Chris Angelico wrote:
> > On Tue, Apr 9, 2013 at 1:37 AM, Roy Smith wrote:
> >> I can't help point out, however, that if your initial implementation is to
> >> have your code return a constant, it's pretty likely to be an optimum
On 8 April 2013 17:20, Chris Angelico wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 9, 2013 at 1:37 AM, Roy Smith wrote:
>> I can't help point out, however, that if your initial implementation is to
>> have your code return a constant, it's pretty likely to be an optimum
>> solution in both time and space :-)
>
> Likel
On Tue, Apr 9, 2013 at 1:37 AM, Roy Smith wrote:
> I can't help point out, however, that if your initial implementation is to
> have your code return a constant, it's pretty likely to be an optimum
> solution in both time and space :-)
Likely, but not certain.
# 1
def fifty_stars():
return "
On Apr 8, 2013, at 11:10 AM, Arnaud Delobelle wrote:
> On 8 April 2013 14:21, Roy Smith wrote:
>
>> For a while, I was rabidly(*) into TDD (Test Driven Development). The
>> cycle I was using was, "Write a specification of a behavior, write a
>> (failing) test for that behavior, then write the
On 8 April 2013 14:21, Roy Smith wrote:
> For a while, I was rabidly(*) into TDD (Test Driven Development). The
> cycle I was using was, "Write a specification of a behavior, write a
> (failing) test for that behavior, then write the least possible amount
> of code to make the test pass. Lather
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Chris Angelico wrote:
> On Mon, Apr 8, 2013 at 7:48 AM, Steven D'Aprano
> wrote:
> > Like every programming problem, the solution is to break it apart into
> > small, simple steps that even a computer can follow.
> > ...
>
> 5) Shortcut the whole thing, since the problem was under
On Mon, Apr 8, 2013 at 7:48 AM, Steven D'Aprano
wrote:
> Like every programming problem, the solution is to break it apart into
> small, simple steps that even a computer can follow.
> ...
5) Shortcut the whole thing, since the problem was underspecified, by
using a literal.
words = ["The Sun",
On Sun, 07 Apr 2013 13:25:57 -0700, subhabangalore wrote:
> Dear Group,
>
> I was looking to split a string in a particular interval, like,
>
> If I have a string,
> string="The Sun rises in the east of our earth"
>
> I like to see it as,
> words=["The Sun","rises in","in the","east of","our e
On 04/07/2013 04:25 PM, subhabangal...@gmail.com wrote:
Dear Group,
I was looking to split a string in a particular interval, like,
If I have a string,
string="The Sun rises in the east of our earth"
Are you asserting that there is nothing but letters and whitespace in
the string, and that
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