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@Charles, discussion about techniques on code golfing would be more meta, so if we cannot have seperate meta site, those discussions can be post on site but probably CW, while normal golf contests are main and on-topic, non-CW. how about that? – YOU Jun 8 '10 at 15:26

Wouldn't it be nice to broaden the subject a little bit and open it for programming puzzles in general? Code Golf would be one tag along with code obfuscation, mathematical problems etc. – Lucas Jun 17 '10 at 14:45

I would want this to be a "Programming Challenge" Stack Exchange. Anything that would be considered a programming challenge, such as golf, puzzles, "coolest demo in 2048 bytes of HTML, JavaScript, and CSS with these ingredients...", obfuscated code contests, fastest code to complete task x, ICFP type contests, etc. I love programming challenges, and definitely support a SE for them, but I'd want it to be inclusive of pretty much any programming challenge. – Brian Campbell Sep 18 '10 at 5:21

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43 Example Questions (8 closed)

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added by Mark Elliot Jun 9 '10 at 20:22

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added by YOU Jun 8 '10 at 8:55

ref: stackoverflow.com/questions/928563/… – YOU Jun 8 '10 at 8:55

up vote 19 down vote

added by YOU Jun 8 '10 at 8:48

ref: stackoverflow.com/questions/437/… – YOU Jun 8 '10 at 8:49

up vote 19 down vote

added by Tom Savage, edited by WikiSpeedia hang-around Oct 4 '10 at 19:18

up vote 17 down vote

added by Master Of Disaster Jun 8 '10 at 4:13

this is on-topic, I think. – YOU Jun 8 '10 at 4:21

Just a copy of one of the higher-voted golf questions from stackoverflow.com. – Master Of Disaster Jun 8 '10 at 4:33

That's one of the higher-voted ones? Seems like a particularly bad code-golf, but I'd accept it as valid, on-topic, belongs on this site. – Roger Pate Jun 8 '10 at 5:09

stackoverflow.com/questions/62188/… – Master Of Disaster Jun 8 '10 at 5:50

up vote 12 down vote

added by srcerer Jul 17 '10 at 0:09

up vote 12 down vote

added by chanchal1987 Aug 7 '10 at 19:25

While not exactly a code golf puzzle, tricks like this are very relevant to code golf. – finnw Aug 9 '10 at 22:18

up vote 10 down vote

added by thyrgle, edited by WikiSpeedia hang-around Oct 4 '10 at 18:07

Ref: stackoverflow.com/questions/3190914/… – thyrgle Jul 23 '10 at 23:45

up vote 9 down vote

added by KennyTM Jun 8 '10 at 7:41

As in stackoverflow.com/questions/891643/… – KennyTM Jun 8 '10 at 7:41

up vote 9 down vote

added by Master Of Disaster Jun 9 '10 at 2:10

	stackoverflow.com/questions/1646887/… – Master Of Disaster Jun 9 '10 at 2:10
	(Meant to be a) good example of an actual code golf challenge – Master Of Disaster Jun 9 '10 at 2:10

up vote 7 down vote

added by Adam Davis Jun 8 '10 at 5:34

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added by srcerer Jul 17 '10 at 0:04

up vote 5 down vote

added by Nathan Taylor Aug 26 '10 at 4:12

	Good question, but 4 digits is too short. <6 digits can be counted in a second in several languages. – Nakilon Oct 8 '10 at 18:48
	@Nakilon updated per your suggestion – Nathan Taylor Oct 11 '10 at 22:26
	How do you measure quickness? – moala Oct 16 '10 at 9:05

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added by KennyTM Jun 8 '10 at 9:30

Golfing the output, not the program size. – KennyTM Jun 8 '10 at 12:47

up vote 4 down vote

added by chanchal1987 Aug 7 '10 at 19:27

	please clarify: gotos allowed? – moala Oct 15 '10 at 17:13
	@moala: You don't need to answer this question here. This is just an example question. – chanchal1987 Oct 18 '10 at 12:53
	@chanchal1987: I know ;-) though the question would have been more precise, answerable. – moala Oct 18 '10 at 15:19
	No "goto" is not allowed here... – chanchal1987 Oct 19 '10 at 6:36
	This is an instructive problem--by which I mean, once you understand both the solutions you know something about c++--but in some ways not a good puzzle. It will attract multiple variants of the same two solution (recursion and allocate an array of objects that do the work in the constructor/destructor), which isn't particularly interesting. – dmckee Oct 19 '10 at 19:01

up vote 3 down vote

added by Adam Davis Jun 8 '10 at 5:31

Isn't code golf supposed to be about code size not execution time? Measuring code in machine code bytes is fine but when you start introducing other metrics it ceases to be code golf. – finnw Aug 9 '10 at 22:23

up vote 3 down vote

added by KennyTM Jun 8 '10 at 17:51

Unconventional golfing goal. Taking from stackoverflow.com/questions/1501176/… (sorry, you need 10k to view it.) – KennyTM Jun 8 '10 at 17:52

"Number of 1-bits" means e.g. 'A' = 65 = 0b01000001 has 2 bits, '\' = 92 = 0b01011100 = 4 bits, etc. – KennyTM Jun 8 '10 at 17:54

holy crap, that's really hard and kind of fantastic – coffeepac Jun 25 '10 at 2:29

up vote 3 down vote

added by chanchal1987 Aug 7 '10 at 19:26

I think a lot of quine questions will find their way onto this site, whether you like it or not. You might as well accept it and have a tag for it. – finnw Aug 9 '10 at 22:16

up vote 1 down vote

added by Adam Davis Jun 8 '10 at 5:35

up vote 1 down vote

added by Tom Savage Jun 9 '10 at 21:34

It is hard to create a good control environment to find which program is fastest. – KennyTM Jun 10 '10 at 10:09

True. I'll just make it just shortest then. – Tom Savage Jun 10 '10 at 16:24

up vote 1 down vote

added by Brian Campbell Sep 18 '10 at 6:09

closed as off topic by Dheer, Steve Claridge, apaderno, dmckee, Noctrine Oct 18 '10 at 18:28

This question does not relate to the topic of the proposal.
It was closed as part of an automated migration of off-topic to close votes on September 29, 2011.

Too subjective. – Nakilon Oct 13 '10 at 11:22

up vote 1 down vote

added by Ryan Berger Oct 6 '10 at 3:42

up vote 0 down vote

added by sth Jun 8 '10 at 6:02

closed as off topic by finnw, cmcculloh, HoLyVieR, Dheer, Vrki Sep 28 '10 at 10:16

This question does not relate to the topic of the proposal.
It was closed as part of an automated migration of off-topic to close votes on September 29, 2011.

	this would seem to be cheating at golf, using an automated helper. or if you're looking to remove whitespace for readability, that wouldn't be relevant at all. – coffeepac Jun 25 '10 at 2:25
	@coffeepac: Using an automated helper is perfectly legitimate! In fact, if you go to golf.shinh.org you'll find a program there called Caddy, which does this job for a small handful of languages (it's open-source, so feel free to extend it with more). – Chris Jester-Young Jun 28 '10 at 23:36
	Having an automated whitespace&comments stripper would presumably encourage people to write documented, readable version of the code that are easier to digest. I do that for SO code-golfs, but the hassle of hand-minifying is also a consideration. – dmckee Jul 30 '10 at 2:04
	What is off-topic in this question, is that this question is asking for a tool/program, which is more appropriate for Super User. The question would have been fine if it was asking for "What tool are useful for Code-Golf to reduce the number of character ?" – HoLyVieR Sep 11 '10 at 1:05

up vote 0 down vote

added by KennyTM Jun 9 '10 at 15:25

closed as off topic by YOU, Chris Jester-Young, A J, Paul B, Mark Elliot Jul 6 '10 at 3:00

This question does not relate to the topic of the proposal.
It was closed as part of an automated migration of off-topic to close votes on September 29, 2011.

	Things that aren't really golfing for an objective nontrivial limit should be off-topic. Taken from stackoverflow.com/questions/2052137/…, and also stackoverflow.com/questions/2296664/…. – KennyTM Jun 9 '10 at 15:25
	I agree. Anti-golf was fun but you can only really do it once. – Tom Savage Jun 9 '10 at 21:31

up vote 0 down vote

added by Tim Post Jun 11 '10 at 14:03

closed as off topic by YOU, KennyTM, Charles Stewart, Lucas, sepp2k Jun 24 '10 at 22:20

This question does not relate to the topic of the proposal.
It was closed as part of an automated migration of off-topic to close votes on September 29, 2011.

up vote 0 down vote

added by cmcculloh Aug 2 '10 at 2:37

closed as off topic by Shawn Chin, AShelly, nevernotmove, Nathan Taylor, Mark Trapp Aug 29 '10 at 9:20

This question does not relate to the topic of the proposal.
It was closed as part of an automated migration of off-topic to close votes on September 29, 2011.

up vote 0 down vote

added by Max Gontar Aug 6 '10 at 5:46

up vote 0 down vote

added by naugtur, edited by WikiSpeedia hang-around Oct 4 '10 at 17:55

closed as off topic by KennyTM, Nathan Taylor, Mark Trapp, Thomas Owens, AShelly Aug 29 '10 at 22:55

This question does not relate to the topic of the proposal.
It was closed as part of an automated migration of off-topic to close votes on September 29, 2011.

up vote 0 down vote

added by Brian Campbell Sep 18 '10 at 6:08

up vote 0 down vote

added by snmcdonald Oct 21 '10 at 3:12

up vote -1 down vote

added by Max Gontar Aug 6 '10 at 18:14

up vote -1 down vote

added by Max Gontar Aug 6 '10 at 18:17

up vote -1 down vote

added by lillq Aug 11 '10 at 22:51

up vote -1 down vote

added by lillq Aug 17 '10 at 15:51

closed as off topic by Thomas Owens, AShelly, Daenyth, Brian Campbell, Vrki Sep 28 '10 at 10:15

This question does not relate to the topic of the proposal.
It was closed as part of an automated migration of off-topic to close votes on September 29, 2011.

up vote -1 down vote

added by MAK Sep 14 '10 at 11:42

up vote -1 down vote

added by Brian Campbell Sep 18 '10 at 6:04

up vote -1 down vote

added by Jaime Soto Oct 20 '10 at 13:59

up vote -1 down vote

added by Brian Campbell Oct 21 '10 at 3:45

up vote -3 down vote

added by sth Jun 8 '10 at 5:36

closed as off topic by KennyTM, Charles Stewart, Blorgbeard, Robert Harvey, flicken Jun 22 '10 at 16:56

This question does not relate to the topic of the proposal.
It was closed as part of an automated migration of off-topic to close votes on September 29, 2011.

	Is confusing "golf" to mean the sport really a good example? – Roger Pate Jun 8 '10 at 19:28
	@Roger: It's "Golf Code," not "Code Golf." – Robert Harvey Jun 8 '10 at 19:33

up vote -3 down vote

added by Master Of Disaster Jun 9 '10 at 2:08

	stackoverflow.com/questions/2261681/… – Master Of Disaster Jun 9 '10 at 2:09
	Deliberate bad example – Master Of Disaster Jun 9 '10 at 2:09
	Its not off-topic I think, but I don't have any votes left, so not voting here. – YOU Jun 9 '10 at 3:37
	Code golf which needs too much logic generally tends to be not much fun. OK, maybe that is not the same as "off topic" though. Bad example? – Master Of Disaster Jun 9 '10 at 3:46
	Ah, that "not a good example" button takes -2, (which shouldn't imho), so I'm rarely do that. – YOU Jun 9 '10 at 4:32