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Nerd quiz - Can you name a programming language for every letter of the alphabet?

9 pointsby kvogtalmost 18 years ago

7 comments

russalmost 18 years ago
APL, Brainfuck, Cobol, D, Erlang, Fortran, Goedel, Haskell, INTERCAL, Javascript, K, Lisp, Matlab, NewtonScript, OCaml, Python, QBasic, Ruby, Smalltalk, TeX, UnrealScript, Verilog, Wierd, XSLT, Yorick, Z++
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SwellJoealmost 18 years ago
Where's the challenge in that? I wanna see a factorial function, iterative and recursive (where applicable), in each. Now that's a nerd.<p>I'm guessing Trevor and rtm could manage about half the alphabet. pg, not a chance, he's too much of a language bigot.<p>I'd be lucky to get through maybe five without consulting a reference of some sort.
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benhoytalmost 18 years ago
What about A, B, C, D, E, F, G, J, K, L, M, N, P, Q, R, S, T, U, V, W, Y and Z?<p>Seriously, they're all real single-letter languages (Google for "[letter] programming language" and wade through the results).<p>I knew of only about 5 of them already (B, C, D, E, K). I couldn't find real languages for H, I, O or X.
gyro_roboalmost 18 years ago
No, but I can P a lot.<p>Python, PHP, Perl, PostScript, PDF, Pascal, Pict, Pike, PL/1, Prolog.<p>Don't you love IBM... Programming Language 1... Operating System 2...
antirezalmost 18 years ago
I failed:<p>A: Ada, B: B, C: C, D: D, E: Erlang, F: Forth, G: Gwbasic, H: Haskell, I: Io, L: Lisp, M: Miranda, N: Newtop Script, O: OCaml, P: Perl, Q: Qbasic, R: Ruby, S: Scheme, T: Tcl, U: ?, V: Visualbasic, Z: ?, X: ?, Y: Yacc, W: ?, K: ?
cpercivaalmost 18 years ago
Off the top of my head: Ada, BCPL, C, Delphi, Erlang, Fortran, Godel, Haskell, Intercal, Java, K (if hypothetical languages count? This is a project by some FreeBSD developers to produce a more powerful version of C designed for kernel programming), Logo, Maple, N??, Occam, Pascal, Q??, Ratfor, Sed, TeX, U??, Visual Basic (if this counts as a language in itself rather than as a version of BASIC), Whitespace, X??, Yorick, Z??<p>I guess that's 19-21 out of 26, depending on the exact rules.
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kvogtalmost 18 years ago
Justin.tv crew came up with 20.