----------------------------------- Clayton Wed Sep 13, 2006 6:19 pm Best "Anything" in 20 Lines (Choose Your Language) ----------------------------------- Okay, there was a contest like this some time ago, which turned into a best game in 20 lines.. but whatever. Here you can program whatever you want, just keep it *around* (preferrably under) 20 lines. So the contest! It will be open to any language (note ill need help with marking etc..), and will be marked on the following: 1. Intuitiveness - How interesting did you code your program to fit the restriction? 2. Performance - I don't want to have to wait forever for the program to execute 3. Attractiveness - It doesnt have to be perfect, but i dont want to see something utterly horrible (minor marks here) 4. Length - Marks will be taken off for going in excess of 20 lines Anyone wishing to submit a submission PM the source to me and i will share it with no one but mods who wish to help with the marking. Please do not post your source here, but if you wish to post an executable, thats fine. PRIZES Prizes will be awarded to the top place program for each language, and in each category (if enough submissions are submitted per language). Prizes will be as follows (for each group): 1st: 200 bits 2nd: 100 bits 3rd: 50 bits 4th: 25 bits 5th: 10 bits There will also be prizes for each language for other things: Most Graphically Appealing: 100 bits Best Effect: 100 bits Most Complex: 50 bits First Submission: 100 bits It should be noted that the First Submission prize still has to be quality work, not just some hodgepodge of code you threw together just to get some easy bits. I would still like to see some decent work from everyone :D NOTE: Any mods willing to help out with bits would be much appreciated, i can give out some, I don't mind, but i don't know if I'll have enough :? Once again, this will be open to any language, and depending on the number of submissions will be split into two groups on the request of the submitter (when submitting your code to me via a PM, tell me if you want into the first category [less experience] or the second category [more experience], if the judges deem a submission to be good enough we may request that we can move it up a category) Have fun with this and i hope to see some good submissions :D [edit]Deadline is one month from this post (ie. October 13 2006 at midnight)[/edit] ----------------------------------- [Gandalf] Wed Sep 13, 2006 7:12 pm ----------------------------------- The problem with allowing any language is that most languages are a lot more flexible in what you can fit on one line than Turing. Oh well, I guess we'll see how it goes... ----------------------------------- Clayton Wed Sep 13, 2006 7:26 pm ----------------------------------- thats why i have it separated into a category for each language submitted :D, in the 20 line count i will exclude whitespace (for those of you who like to use it) and in the cases of languages like C++, i will exclude lines consisting of just { or } and the newline at the end of the file (which some compilers require) ----------------------------------- md Wed Sep 13, 2006 8:52 pm ----------------------------------- what about something like #include #include int main(int argc, char** argv) { std::string name; std::out > name; std::cout