mbue

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by mbue 6y ago
Appreciate the compliment. :)
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by mbue 6y ago
Yeah, that was the idea. Just a language for fun and specifically for code golf (solving programming problems in as small a program as possible). In the case of Retina, it turned out the language is actually pretty useful for throwaway scri
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by mbue 6y ago
Yeah, it really is surprisingly similar to sed. "Surprisingly", because when I first designed the language I knew nothing about sed, and I still know very little (but I've seen people convert programs between both languages i
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by mbue 6y ago
FWIW, they're usually called esoteric programming languages/esolangs, but I'm not a fan of that term. That's why I've been using "recretional" instead. :)
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by mbue 6y ago
Hi, author here! Thanks for the feedback. I'm not in charge of Try It Online, so I can't do anything about filling it with code by default, but as someone else noted, there is a Hello World button, which fills in a (very trivial)
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Why is 1-1/(1-1/(1-…)) not real?(math.stackexchange.com)
2 points by mbue 11y ago|0 comments
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The Programming Language Quiz(codegolf.stackexchange.com)
2 points by mbue 11y ago|0 comments
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by mbue 11y ago
(I am not affiliated with Dinosaur Games in any way. Just a fan of the game.) > (Incidentally, branding aside, this article piqued my interest in the game. Is it worth a play?) I've been playing the game on and off for a month or so
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Indie Artist Struggles with Branding So You Don’t Have To(dinofarmgames.com)
37 points by mbue 11y ago|14 comments
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Indie Artist Struggles with Branding So You Don’t Have To(dinofarmgames.com)
2 points by mbue 11y ago|0 comments
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Approximating images with Voronoi diagrams(codegolf.stackexchange.com)
58 points by mbue 11y ago|11 comments
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Programming Languages through the Years(codegolf.stackexchange.com)
1 points by mbue 11y ago|0 comments
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Lab Rat Race: an exercise in genetic algorithms(codegolf.stackexchange.com)
14 points by mbue 12y ago|0 comments
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DJ Glove Prototype(youtube.com)
2 points by mbue 12y ago|0 comments
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Phonopath(phonopath.com)
1 points by mbue 12y ago|0 comments
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Cops and Robbers: Regex Golf(codegolf.stackexchange.com)
2 points by mbue 12y ago|0 comments
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Killer Whales Learn to Communicate Like Dolphins(acousticstoday.org)
2 points by mbue 12y ago|0 comments
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Mathematical art that fits in 3 tweets(codegolf.stackexchange.com)
2 points by mbue 12y ago|0 comments
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by mbue 13y ago
The problem is, regex flavors differ, and RegexPal uses JavaScript - whose regex flavor is really limited compared to most others (including Python). You should always try to find a tool that uses the regex flavor you are targeting.
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by mbue 13y ago
Yes, this is explicitly a tool that uses PCRE via PHP. So I'd expect the behaviour to exactly reflect that of the `preg` suite in PHP... which does not use `u` by default.
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by mbue 13y ago
In the quiz, for competitive motivation it would be nice to see if you actually broke the current record on a quiz. Right now, there's no way to tell, whether you just caught up with the current record holder, or whether you've se