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lol not quite in the spirit of the challenge.

by kremlin 12y ago

pdkl95 12y ago
Forcing the creation of a new contest rule is a tradition in the IOCCC.
- bluecalm 12y ago
  Meh. Empty program doesn't replicate itself. It's similar to recent rule-nitpick discussion about selling for 0$. Selling for 0$ isn't selling and nothing isn't replicating itself. Definition of replicate is: to repeat or copy (something) exactly Empty program doesn't copy or repeat anything. Entry rejected. EDIT: It's not reddit, downvotes doesn't go here for disagreeing. The problem is posed in natural language and it has its own rules. In natural language (at least in English) doing nothing isn't copying or replicating. You may check the dictionaries. Next time someone will claim claim 1 million sales: million nothings for 0 dollars to nobodies. EDIT (to other child) Yes, empty set is subset of other sets but that's because the definition of subset. Copy or replicate in natural language (in which the problem is posed) mean something entirely different.
  - mynameisvlad 12y ago
    I disagree. You are copying something exactly. Just because that something is empty does not mean it's not being copied. Using cp, by definition of the command, is copying something.
  - jamesrom 12y ago
    The empty set is a subset of the empty set.
    - eximius 12y ago
      Don't forget that the empty set is also the subset of the empty set, making them equal. ;)
- kremlin 12y ago
  That tradition goes back a long, long way. When Plato defined Man as "A featherless biped," someone showed him a plucked chicken. A great tradition.
  - ismailmechbal 12y ago
    Exactly, and that someone is the humble "Diogenes of Sinope"
- pdkl95 12y ago
  Speaking of rule abuse, I love this recent entry, which uses the IOCCC's own tool to calculate the size... and abuses a bug in it! It's mainly for a joke, though there IS a huge program-size abuse in the custom BIOS the program uses. http://www.ioccc.org/2013/cable3/hint.html http://www.ioccc.org/2013/cable3/hint.html *RULE 2 ABUSE DISCLAIMER* - cable3.c is 4043 bytes in length (half an 8086) - iocccsize -i < cable3.c returns 1977 (the year the 4.77 MHz 8086 CPU was announced) - Therefore, any suspicions the judges may have regarding rule 2 non-compliance may be well-intentioned but are groundless. - Nonetheless, the author would like to apologise to the judges for the one-big-block-of-code nature of this entry, which turned out to be unavoidable. Hopefully the joys of this entry will make up for its shortcomings.

lol not quite in the spirit of the challenge.

by kremlin 12y ago

lol not quite in the spirit of the challenge.

pdkl95 12y ago

Forcing the creation of a new contest rule is a tradition in the IOCCC.

bluecalm 12y ago
Meh. Empty program doesn't replicate itself. It's similar to recent rule-nitpick discussion about selling for 0$. Selling for 0$ isn't selling and nothing isn't replicating itself. Definition of replicate is: to repeat or copy (something) exactly Empty program doesn't copy or repeat anything. Entry rejected. EDIT: It's not reddit, downvotes doesn't go here for disagreeing. The problem is posed in natural language and it has its own rules. In natural language (at least in English) doing nothing isn't copying or replicating. You may check the dictionaries. Next time someone will claim claim 1 million sales: million nothings for 0 dollars to nobodies. EDIT (to other child) Yes, empty set is subset of other sets but that's because the definition of subset. Copy or replicate in natural language (in which the problem is posed) mean something entirely different.
- mynameisvlad 12y ago
  I disagree. You are copying something exactly. Just because that something is empty does not mean it's not being copied. Using cp, by definition of the command, is copying something.
- jamesrom 12y ago
  The empty set is a subset of the empty set.
  - eximius 12y ago
    Don't forget that the empty set is also the subset of the empty set, making them equal. ;)
kremlin 12y ago
That tradition goes back a long, long way. When Plato defined Man as "A featherless biped," someone showed him a plucked chicken. A great tradition.
- ismailmechbal 12y ago
  Exactly, and that someone is the humble "Diogenes of Sinope"
pdkl95 12y ago
Speaking of rule abuse, I love this recent entry, which uses the IOCCC's own tool to calculate the size... and abuses a bug in it! It's mainly for a joke, though there IS a huge program-size abuse in the custom BIOS the program uses. http://www.ioccc.org/2013/cable3/hint.html http://www.ioccc.org/2013/cable3/hint.html *RULE 2 ABUSE DISCLAIMER* - cable3.c is 4043 bytes in length (half an 8086) - iocccsize -i < cable3.c returns 1977 (the year the 4.77 MHz 8086 CPU was announced) - Therefore, any suspicions the judges may have regarding rule 2 non-compliance may be well-intentioned but are groundless. - Nonetheless, the author would like to apologise to the judges for the one-big-block-of-code nature of this entry, which turned out to be unavoidable. Hopefully the joys of this entry will make up for its shortcomings.