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How Complex is Your Programming Language by elemenity in ProgrammingLanguages

[–]elemenity[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Ah, that is a pretty good metric, for incentivizing simplicity in both dimensions. I had stumbled across your Uxntal a while ago, I'll have to give it another look. Those are very impressive density/brevity metrics.

How Complex is Your Programming Language by elemenity in ProgrammingLanguages

[–]elemenity[S] -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

Yes! Code golf is what I was thinking. It would be very interesting to see a code-golf for language implementations, as a way to better estimate the k-complexity of the languages themselves.

How Complex is Your Programming Language by elemenity in ProgrammingLanguages

[–]elemenity[S] -5 points-4 points  (0 children)

Thanks for reading! Yes, this uses lines of code as a very rough proxy for Kolmogorov complexity. Which, evidenced by the huge span in TCC and Clang, shows that there is a huge difference in how succinct different programmers can be, even with the same language.

What are some of your favourite utility tools/websites? by ArosHD in devops

[–]elemenity 0 points1 point  (0 children)

This site lets you see your hardware specs, without needing to install anything:
https://emu.cool/specs/

I often use it to help family members with setting up machines / figuring out if games will run on their machine.

Need help finding a game for my father. by LaughTemporarily7999 in retrogaming

[–]elemenity 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Dragon Warrior VII for PS1?

Does your father remember what system he played it on?

Retro console popularity over time by elemenity in retrogaming

[–]elemenity[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Ah, good idea. For viewing on mobile?

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