335
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Make your language unusable
JavaScript Shell
This will make the language completely unusable.
clear(this);
Isn't it nice how JavaScript has such a nice function to destroy itself?
This ...
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Tweetable Mathematical Art
Table cloths
Flat
I started out putting a plaid/gingham pattern into perspective like a boundless table cloth:
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182
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Make your language unusable
Emmental
;#33!
I know this isn't code golf, but the right tool for the job, you know...
The user's code can be inserted after the ...
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181
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Programming Languages Through The Years
2013 - Dogescript
Dogescript is a language created in 2013 by Zach Bruggeman. It is nothing more than a syntax-replacement for Javascript to make it read like the internal monologues of memetic Shiba ...
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Sort a list and write some English!
GolfScript
Dear Boss Man.
It came to my attention that my keyboard needs replacement; the keys required to write the
symbols ~ $ ` . and } are not functioning properly.
It's very difficult to work ...
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Make a circle illusion animation
Python 3.4
Using the turtle module. The turtles are different colours and they always face in the same direction, so they can be easily seen to be moving along straight lines by just focusing on one ...
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131
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Make an error quine!
Ed (1 byte)
All the other solutions thus far are long and ugly. I suppose that is because of the nature of most error messages. But a good error message is elegant in its simplicity. For that, look ...
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122
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Sort a list and write some English!
PHP
Defines a function called item that will sort an array that you pass it.
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Tweetable Mathematical Art
Mandelbrot 3 x 133 chars
The first thing that popped into my mind was "Mandelbrot!".
Yes, I know there already is a mandelbrot submission. After confirming that I'm able to get it below 140 ...
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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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112
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Draw an Image as a Voronoi Map
Python + scipy + scikit-image, weighted Poisson disc sampling
My solution is rather complex. I do some preprocessing on the image to remove noise and get a mapping how 'interesting' each point is (...
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110
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Tweetable Mathematical Art
Julia sets
If there's a Mandelbrot, there should be a Julia set too.
You can spend hours tweaking the parameters and functions, so this is just a quick one that looks decent.
Inspired from Martin's ...
107
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Tweetable Mathematical Art
This one is interesting because it doesn't use the i, j parameters at all. Instead it remembers state in a static variable.
...
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103
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102
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The Smart Person's Mirage
The most beautiful version, you say? Then, let's try this one in...
Shakespeare Programming Language
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Make your language unusable
PHP
One can completely kill PHP by setting the memory limit to 1.
It will completely die.
Try this:
<?php
ini_set('memory_limit',1);
//code here
This ...
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Draw random black-and-white forest
C: 3863 1144 1023 999 942 927
The original solution saves 2 pnm files per run (one with g appended, before dithering). Because the dithering wasn't beautiful for the first few lines, there is a hack ...
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99
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More is less and less is more
Any REPL with caret XOR operation, 5 bytes
11^11
11^11 is of course 0. The only other possibilities are ...
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95
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Make your language unusable
x86 machine code in real mode (=> almost any DOS program)
00000000 6a 00 07 b9 00 04 30 c0 31 ff f3 aa |j.....0.1...|
0000000c
i.e.
...
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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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86
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Make an error quine!
CoffeeScript, syntactically valid
As tested on their website using Chrome or Firefox.
ReferenceError: defined is not defined
You can replace ...
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81
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Tweetable Mathematical Art
Buddhabrot (+ Antibuddhabrot)
Edit: It's a proper Buddhabrot now!
Edit: I managed to cap the colour intensity within the byte limit, so there are no more falsely black pixels due to overflow.
I ...
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81
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Reversed language name
PHP, 3 bytes
PHP
Try it online!
It looks like it outputs the language name, but it's actually the letters in reversed order.
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