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23 questions linked to/from Shortest infinite loop producing no output
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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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Showcase of Languages
Notes
This thread is open and unlocked only because the community decided to make an exception. Please do not use this question as evidence that you can ask similar questions here. Please do not ...
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Is this number a prime?
Believe it or not, we do not yet have a code golf challenge for a simple primality test. While it may not be the most interesting challenge, particularly for "usual" languages, it can be nontrivial in ...
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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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Shortest code to produce infinite output
Write the shortest code you can that produces an infinite output.
That's all. You code will only be disqualified if it stops producing output at some point. As always in code golf, the shortest code ...
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Code that will only execute once
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The goal of this challenge is to write code that will execute once and only once. This means basically that it damages the program, script, or environment in some way. If rebooting the system ...
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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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Is this even or odd?
Note: There is not been a vanilla parity test challenge yet (There is a C/C++ one but that disallows the ability to use languages other than C/C++, and other non-vanilla ones are mostly closed too), ...
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Scream very loudly
Write a script that outputs A to stdout infinitely.
There should be no newlines or separators between the characters.
Standard loopholes apply.
This is code-golf. ...
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Shortest program that throws StackOverflow Error [closed]
Write a program that throws a StackOverflow Error or the equivalent in the language used. For example, in java, the program should throw java.lang.StackOverflowError...
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Shortest Code to Legitimately Slack Off
I'm a developer, and I don't feel like doing my work. I know from XKCD that the best excuse for slacking off is that your code's compiling. Because of this, I think I need some code that will compile ...
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Shortest program that continuously allocates memory
Write a program which runs forever and allocates more and more memory on the heap the longer it runs, at least until you reach the limit of the operating system on the amount of memory that can be ...
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Non-discriminating Programming
We say a string is non-discriminating if each of the string's characters appears the same number of times and at least twice.
Examples
"aa!1 1 !a !1" is non-...
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Blinking twelve
Many electronic devices, specially old ones, will show a blinking 12:00 when the time has not been set. The purpose of this challenge is to recreate this.
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Tips for golfing in Bash
What general tips do you have for golfing in Bash? I'm looking for ideas that can be applied to code golf problems in general that are at least somewhat specific to Bash (e.g. "remove comments" is not ...
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