Linked Questions
27 questions linked to/from Tips for golfing in Whitespace
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"Hello, World!"
So... uh... this is a bit embarrassing. But we don't have a plain "Hello, World!" challenge yet (despite having 35 variants tagged with hello-world, and counting). While this is not the most ...
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Implement a Truth-Machine
A truth-machine (credits goes to this guy for coming up with it) is a very simple program designed to demonstrate the I/O and control flow of a language. Here's what a truth-machine does:
Gets a ...
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Sing Happy Birthday to your favourite programming language
Your favourite programming language has just had a birthday. Be nice and sing it the Happy Birthday song.
Of course you should accomplish this by writing a program in that language.
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Trick or Treat polyglot
Since Halloween is coming up I thought I might start a fun little code golf challenge!
The challenge is quite simple. You have to write a program that outputs either ...
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Print invisible text
Given a string as input, output a number of whitespace characters (0x0A and 0x20) equal to the length of the string.
For example, given the string Hello, World! ...
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Create a program that prints the number of characters it has, in words
Create a program which prints the amount of characters its source has in English words.
If your program is nine letters long it should print "nine".
Capitalization is ignored: in case you're ...
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Tips for golfing in <all languages>
The aim of this post is to gather all the golfing tips that can be easily applied to <all languages> rather than a specific one.
Only post answers that its ...
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DISARM THE B.O.M.B.!
You have been hired for your tech knowledge as a Secret Agent's sidekick to ensure that the good guy can get his job done and the world can be saved.
This is your last mission before retiring with a ...
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Halloween Golf: The 2spooky4me Challenge!
A current internet meme is to type 2spooky4me, with a second person typing 3spooky5me, following the (n)spooky(n+2)me pattern.
Your mission is to implement this ...
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All Your Base Are Belong To Us (Restricted)
Input must not be required, and output must read "All your base are belong to us".
Restrictions
No external resources.
Plus a minimum of two of the ...
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Print the phrase "And she said, 'But that's his.'" using only the alphabet
Print the phrase And she said, 'But that's his.' using only the following characters: ...
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"Hello, World!" in zero lines of code
NPM's sloc is a moderately popular tool for counting source lines of code in a file. The tool will attempt to strip out both single and multiline comments and count the remaining lines in order to get ...
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'abc' and 'cba'
Your task is simple, write a single code snippet that when executed in one language outputs only the string 'abc' and when executed in another language outputs ...
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"As a child, I was told Spiders felt no emotion."
The challenge: output this exact ASCII art of a spiderweb in a window:
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Output the text "Code Bowling"
Code-Bowling
You've been hired by Brunswick Bowling to create a simple program to output the text Code Bowling on their monitors. This company is worth a pretty ...
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