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Debunking Stroustrup's debunking of the myth “C++ is for large, complicated, programs only”
Wolfram
This feels like complete cheating
Import["http://www.stroustrup.com/C++.html", "Hyperlinks"]
So just add some honest parsing on top
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115
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Build a Faulty XKCD Browser
Python 2.7 + xkcd, 55 bytes
xkcd is a third-party Python package. In Python, there is a package for everything!
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Debunking Stroustrup's debunking of the myth “C++ is for large, complicated, programs only”
Pure Bash on Linux/OS X (no external utilities)
HTTP client software is notoriously bloated. We don't want those kinds of dependencies. Instead we can push the appropriate headers down a TCP stream ...
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57
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A simple TCP server
Bash + netcat + ss + …, 65 60 characters
nc -lp$1 -c'ss src :'$1'|awk \$0=\$5|tr .: +#|bc'
exec $0 $1
Not a serious solution, was just curious about this ...
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53
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Debunking Stroustrup's debunking of the myth “C++ is for large, complicated, programs only”
"No third-party" is a fallacy
I think the "no third-party" assumption is a fallacy. And is a specific fallacy that afflicts C++ developers, since it's so hard to make reusable code in C++. When you ...
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Debunking Stroustrup's debunking of the myth “C++ is for large, complicated, programs only”
UNIX shell
lynx -dump http://www.stroustrup.com/C++.html | grep -o '\w*://.*'
Also finds an ftp:// link :)
Another way, without ...
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Open the browser to http://codegolf.stackexchange.com
Oration, 41 bytes
Not winning, but sure was fun. As of right now, I'm only 1 bytee behind python!
I need webbrowser
Now open "http:ppcg.ga"
Explanation:
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Stack Exchange Vote Counter
jQuery + JavaScript, 85 bytes
$.get("//api.stackexchange.com/posts/82610?site=codegolf",d=>alert(d.items[0].score))
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418: I'm a teapot
GNU Awk: 69 characters
A server itself (endlessly serves one request at a time), no library used.
Send 418 to everybody who connects (82 69 characters):
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Open the browser to http://codegolf.stackexchange.com
Batch, 17 bytes
Saved 3 bytes thanks to Mego.
start www.ppcg.ga
This will open in your default browser if you run it from the windows command line.
I think it'll ...
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Debunking Stroustrup's debunking of the myth “C++ is for large, complicated, programs only”
Clojure
(->> (slurp "http://www.stroustrup.com")
(re-seq #"(?:http://)?www(?:[./#\+-]\w*)+"))
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Open the browser to http://codegolf.stackexchange.com
GNU Emacs, 29 27 14 bytes
(eww"ppcg.ga")
EWW is a browser inside Emacs. The browse-web function is an alias for ...
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Write a program that downloads itself
Bash + coreutils + Lynx browser, 61 bytes
Thanks to @FDinoff for the tips:
lynx -dump codegolf.stackexchange.com/posts/28164/body|grep 2
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418: I'm a teapot
PHP - 85 bytes
<?for($s=socket_create_listen(80);socket_write(socket_accept($s),"HTTP/1.1 418
"););
Saved with Windows-Style (CR-LF) line endings, requires <...
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Check if computer is connected to the internet
Bash (with dnsutils), 3 bytes
Sends a DNS request for "." (DNS root), exit code is 0 for success and >0 otherwise.
Golfed
dig
Test
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What's my PPCG ID?
Stack Exchange Data Explorer, 56 54 53 51 46 bytes
-1 byte thanks to Hyper Neutrino. -5 bytes thanks to Giacomo Garabello.
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Debunking Stroustrup's debunking of the myth “C++ is for large, complicated, programs only”
Scala
"""\"(https?://.*?)\"""".r.findAllIn(scala.io.Source.fromURL("http://www.stroustrup.com/C++.html").mkString).foreach(println)
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Debunking Stroustrup's debunking of the myth “C++ is for large, complicated, programs only”
PHP 5
<?php
preg_match_all('/"(https?:\/\/.*?)"/',file_get_contents('http://www.stroustrup.com/C++.html'),$m);
print_r($m[1]);
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Open the browser to http://codegolf.stackexchange.com
PowerShell, 17 16 Bytes
saps www.ppcg.lol
Using an even shorter domain provided by Milo.
saps www.ppcg.ga
While ...
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24
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Stack Exchange Vote Counter
JavaScript ES6, 107 bytes
fetch`//api.stackexchange.com/posts/82672?site=codegolf`.then(r=>r.json()).then(b=>alert(b.items[0].score))
Real ...
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Was it Really Canada Day?
Bash, 43 42 40 bytes
curl -L enwp.org/$@|grep -o Canada|wc -l
Uses curl, grep, and ...
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Write a program that downloads itself
Ruby, 155 186 195 148 138 110 97 characters
require'open-uri';puts open('http://codegolf.stackexchange.com/posts/28159/body').read[/req.+;/];
I had to make it ...
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