I must've missed the first time you posted this. Its freaking
awesome. I love how vague the instruction sets are. I.E. October's:
instruction "draw a straight line and follow it". A fitting minimal
starting point to instructionset. Please contribute your
>
> I posted this already, but similar:
>
> "Every month some instructions appear on instructionset.org.
> Instructions may be vague or specific. Your challenge is to write
> software to carry out the instruction.
> You may pick any programming or patching language you wish, and may
> stretch the definition of 'programming language' and 'software' if you
> like.
> You are encouraged to provide sourcecode under a free license of your
> choosing, but this is not mandatory.
> If you have an idea for an instruction, please suggest it, it will
> have a high chance of being used."
>
>
http://instructionset.org/>
> 2008/11/3 Sean Braithwaite <
[hidden email]>:
>> For ruby related examples, check out
http://rubyquiz.com>>
>> It used to be a weekly event on ruby-talk. A question would be
>> posed and a
>> bunch of people would contribute solutions. The quiz master would
>> then
>> summarize the strategies on the website. The quiz master (James
>> Edward Grey
>> II) stepped down a little while back but the archive of all the old
>> solutions and reviews is still up.
>>
>>
http://rubyquiz.com/quiz67.html is one of my favorites.
>>
>> On Mon, Nov 3, 2008 at 9:56 AM, c-a <
[hidden email]>
>> wrote:
>>>
>>> thanks for this, it looks like good ref material
>>>
>>> On Nov 2, 5:42 pm, "Morgan Sutherland" <
[hidden email]>
>>> wrote:
>>>>
http://pleac.sourceforge.net/>>>>
>>>> PLEAC - Programming Language Examples Alike Cookbook
>>>>
>>>> "Following the great Perl Cookbook (by Tom Christiansen & Nathan
>>>> Torkington, published by O'Reilly; you can freely browse an
>>>> excerpt of
>>>> the book here) which presents a suite of common programming
>>>> problems
>>>> solved in the Perl language, this project aims to implement the
>>>> solutions in other programming languages.
>>>>
>>>> If successful, this project may become a primary resource for
>>>> quick,
>>>> handy and free reference to solve most common programming problems
>>>> using various programming languages, and for comparison on ease-
>>>> of-use
>>>> and power/efficiency of these languages.
>>>>
>>>> The material, considered as some Documentation, is wholly released
>>>> under the Gnu Free Documentation License, except the Perl part,
>>>> which
>>>> is copyrighted by O'Reilly & Associates yet freely available.
>>>>
>>>> Please subscribe to the discussion mailing-list if interested in
>>>> the
>>>> project.
>>>>
>>>> The FAQ is here. You may also see who talked about Pleac."
>>>>
>>>> 2008/11/2 Daniel Roberts <
[hidden email]>:
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>> Hey guys,
>>>>
>>>>> What was the name of that website that compared different computer
>>>>> languages
>>>>> and how they handle routine tasks?
>>>>
>>>>> We were looking at it on wednesday...
>>>>
>>>>> -Dan
>>>>
>>>> --
>>>> Morgan Sutherland
>>>
>>
>>
>>>
>>
>
>
>
> --
> Morgan Sutherland
>
> >
