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Showcase of Languages

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The Programming Language Quiz

Congratulations to Dennis who won both the cops' and the robbers' challenge! Calvin's Hobbies has already delivered on his promise and wrote this challenge for Dennis for winning the robbers' ...
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Make your language unusable

Try to write some code in your language and make it not satisfying our criteria of being a programming language any more. A language satisfies our criteria (simplified version for this challenge) of ...
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The Programming Language Quiz, Mark II - Robbers

Cops challenge The Robbers' Challenge Find a vulnerable answer. That is, an answer which hasn't been cracked yet and which isn't safe yet either. Crack it by figuring out its language. That is, find ...
caird coinheringaahin g's user avatar
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Overlapping Polyglots

Unlike many C&R challenges, this does not require a separate robbers post; the goal of the robbers is to crack the previous answer and then post a new one as a cop. As answerers, you will write a ...
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Add a hidden language to a polyglot

Inspired/mostly copied but I don't think it's a dupe. Also Inspired. In this challenge, you will create polyglots that include all languages from previous answers, and another language which you won't ...
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Peel away the layers - Cops

In this cops-and-robbers challenge, robbers must crack cop answers by finding out which languages the cops used. This is the Cops thread. For the Robbers' challenge, see here Cops, you are to write a ...
caird coinheringaahin g's user avatar
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The Symbols vs. The Letters

The Symbols vs. The Letters The ASCII characters have been divided once again! Your sets are The Letters and The Symbols. The Letters ...
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Two In One: Guess That Language - Cops

Robber's challenge This cops-and-robbers challenge challenges the Cop to write a non-empty program that, when run, produces some non-empty output in language A, and, when reversed, produces some non-...
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Two In One: Guess That Language - Robbers

Cops' challenge This cops-and-robbers challenge challenges the Cop to write a non-empty program that, when run, produces some non-empty output in language A, and, when reversed, produces some non-...
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12 with no 1234567890, but polyglot

This is my 12th question, so I thought of this idea. Goal: Output 12, with any preceding or trailing whitespace permitted In as many languages as possible (where different versions or flags count as ...
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