BASIC is the perfect programming language to a lighthearted programming challenge, and I'm about to prove it to you. What better matchup between BASIC than Paper, Rock, Scissors?
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Showing posts with label arc challenge. Show all posts
Showing posts with label arc challenge. Show all posts
Friday, September 11, 2009
Thursday, February 07, 2008
Taking the Arc Challenge
Paul Graham, a very famous Lisp programmer who is well known for his continuations based web framework has invented a language called Arc (a version of Lisp). He came up with a challenge to see how others would implement a trivial web program in their favorite language.
Here's the Arc program:
Here's the Arc program:
(defop said req
(aform [w/link (pr "you said: " (arg _ "foo"))
(pr "click here")]
(input "foo")
(submit)))
Follow this link to see other submissions in different languages. Scroll down to to bottom to see the Run BASIC example. http://arclanguage.org/item?id=722
Now tell me which language you'd rather develop web apps in. BASIC is the one. ;-)
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