Ok, how about this: Program a spinning 3D cube. Programs will be judged on a 1-10 score on readability, speed, memory usage and visual quality. The four scores will be added up to determine your overall score.
Write a program that will automatically respond to Xarn posts. Whenever a post with "Xarn" is its body is made, the program shall make a reply. The name shall be "Gerry Sussman", the mail shall be "gjs@mit.org", and the body shall consist of a link to the Xarn post and the line "That was unscientific.".
Write a program that will automatically respond to Xarn posts. Whenever a post with "Xarn" in its body is made, the program shall make a reply. The name shall be "Gerry Sussman", the mail shall be "gjs@mit.org", and the body shall consist of a link to the Xarn post and the line "That was unscientific, Xarn.".
>>26,29
The fact that some of the summer crowd has taken it too far because they don't know the difference between the imageboards and world4ch doesn't mean the rest of us can't like Xarn.
Just add ``bampu xarnae'' to your filter, that ought to take care of the worst of it.
>>32
What's the point of /prog/ challenges if Xarn is always the winner? (Note that I am not denying his skill or claiming that he is not a better programmer than I am.) Nobody even matches his level, and even if they do, Xarn wins nevertheless, because not giving him the prize feels wrong.
>>35
This is why /prog/ needs more pseudonymous members, if only for the cult of personality they will receive for looking like a real person instead of the nameless robots that inhabit this place.