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Code That Pushed the Language Envelope?

Posted by Cliff on from the I-can't-believe-they-did-that-in-APL! dept.

Lil Fritz asks: "Following on from the cool Flash Adventure game last week, this geezer Neil Pearce has written a full client side JavaScript CPU chess player (which drew with me, but then I'm papz at Chess). Now this sort of thing always amazes me. Doing stuff for which it was never intended. Do we have other warped (ie 'they wrote it in what?!?') uses of languages and tools?"

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  1. Strange uses for C by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Funny

    Some people use the C programming language to actually attempt to write qulaity programs.

    I have to ask (slashdot) what drugs are these people taking?

  2. Re:Obfuscated code, 1K competition by Mr.+Sketch · · Score: 3, Funny

    Obfuscated Perl contest WTF?

    As if one would even have to try to make perl code obfuscated? How about a legable perl contest? I'm sure that would be much more difficult.

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  3. Re:Its kind of cool - but... by Theom · · Score: 2, Funny

    A language you can actually write a whole program in, I'm impressed...

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  4. Re:Best pushing of the envelope I've ever done by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny
    I am dating myself here

    So are most slashdotters. Don't be embarrassed; you'll find a partner eventually, and she'll have hands of her own.

  5. Re:Obfuscated code, 1K competition by Mr.+Sketch · · Score: 3, Funny

    It isn't funny, it's on topic. After all, legible perl code does push the envelope of the language and uses it for something it was never intended.

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