540
votes
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Code that will only execute once
Vigil
Finally a usecase for Vigil!
def main():
raise Exception()
Excerpt from the "language specification":
It goes without saying that any function ...
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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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Code that will only execute once
Pretty much any Linux distro, 9 chars
This one is a classic!
#!/bin/rm
Put this in a file and run it:
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294
votes
Write a program that makes 2 + 2 = 5
Haskell
I just love how you can throw anything at ghci and it totally rolls with it.
λ> let 2+2=5 in 2+2
5
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Write a program that makes 2 + 2 = 5
C
Pretty cheap trick but I'm sure I will trap the most of you.
...
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290
votes
Accepted
Make it look like I'm working
JavaScript
So I went a little crazy with this. I did it between breaks from working on my GUI to track IP's using Visual Basic.
You can access it by going to the super serious domain I made for it ...
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What? No error?
C++
Make sure you compile the following code in standard conforming mode (for example, for g++ use the -ansi flag):
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258
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Accepted
Loop without 'looping'
Ruby
def method_missing(meth,*args)
puts 'Banana'
send(meth.next)
end
def also
puts "Orange you glad I didn't say banana?"
end
ahem
Demo
Clears its ...
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256
votes
Code that will only execute once
x86 binary, 4 bytes
F0 0F C7 C8
Assumption: Must be run on a P5 Pentium CPU.
The above instruction is commonly known as the F00F bug. It attempts to execute an ...
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votes
Accepted
So obviously, P = NP
C#
Your task is to write a program for SAT that appears to execute in polynomial time.
"Appears" is unnecessary. I can write a program that really does execute in polynomial time to solve SAT ...
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Accepted
4, 8, 15, 16, 23, 42
Java
I decided to add another entry since this is completely different from my first one (which was more like an example).
This program calculates the average of an array entered by the user...
<...
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votes
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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190
votes
184
votes
Why isn't it ending?
Javascript
var x=prompt('Enter a value under 100');
while (x != 100) {
x=x+1;
}
console.log('End!');
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183
votes
182
votes
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
votes
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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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votes
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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votes
Accepted
Random script that isn't actually random
C
It's important to decide who is buying as quickly as possible, so as not to waste precious drinking time - hence C is the obvious choice in order to get maximum performance:
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- 2,901
166
votes
So obviously, P = NP
Multi-language (1 byte)
The following program, valid in many languages, mostly functional and esoteric, will give the correct answer for a large number of SAT problems and has constant complexity (!!!...
- 1,654
164
votes
Random script that isn't actually random
PHP
Couldn't let this go, so here is another one:
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Accepted
American Gothic in the palette of Mona Lisa: Rearrange the pixels
Java - GUI with progressive randomized transformation
I tried a LOT of things, some of them very complicated, then I finally came back to this relatively-simple code:
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162
votes
151
votes
Code that will only execute once
gzip
#!/bin/gzip
To much annoyance to people used to nondestructive commandline tools, gzip by default ruins the original ...
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votes
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