Thread: IDEA: Redo a common program in a creative way

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    IDEA: Redo a common program in a creative way

    Take an old idea, and write it in a new way, like a recursive counting function

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    we should make a really really cool Hello World program!!!
    hasafraggin shizigishin oppashigger...

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    can you go into detail?

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    we could have people judge it... [more qualified judges than in FD imho... perhaps the mods would judge...] in various categories... we should make it as portable with a standard [basic] gfx api, stuff like that...
    hasafraggin shizigishin oppashigger...

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    Hmm....I got an idea for this...

    Point of clarity - When you say creatative, does that mean just about anything goes as long as the result is as per a common program's output?

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    prelude first suggested this idea, and she named someone's recursive counting program as an example.

    ie:
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    int main () { int x; x = count(6); }
    int count (int x) {
      if (x == 0) return 1;
      else { printf("%d",x); return x-1; }
    
    
    }
    hmm... that's not as elegant as i would like
    but do you see my point? perhaps prelude can venture over and clarify things...

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