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Your challenge, should you choose to accept it, is to write a program in a language of your choice that, when given a string (limited to printable ASCII) as input, outputs a new program in the same ...
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Iterative Quine
Create a program which prints itself, followed by an additional program. This additional program should print the first program, itself, and then a third program. This continues until the nth program, ...
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Counting and so on
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You count numbers every day (I think), and most of you know how to count properly, the one next to 1 is 2, and the next ...
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Generate the shortest regex to match these but not those [closed]
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Given two lists of strings where each string is of length 50 and each list is also of length 50 generate the shortest regex you can that fully matches all the strings in the first list and ...
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Make a polyglot generator
A polyglot is a program that runs in several languages.
Your challenge is to:
Choose at least two languages (Different versions count as different languages)
Create a program or function that takes ...
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Predictor Generator [closed]
Write a program that when given a string \$S\$, it generates a program of the same language as itself.
The generated program, when given a continuous substring of \$S\$, should predict the next ...
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How divisible are you?
You are to create a program which, when given a positive integer \$n\$, outputs a second program. This second program, when run, must take a second positive integer \$x\$ and output one of two ...
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Lazy brainfuck programmer [closed]
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Joe is working on his new Brainfuck answer on Codegolf. The algorithm he's using to solve the challenge is a bit complicated, so Joe came up with idea of simplifying his Brainfuck notation ...
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Generate Brainfuck for the numbers 1–255
Write a program that, for the numbers 1 through 255, prints out BF code that will produce the given number in some byte of the array, plus a newline.
For example, the first four lines of the output ...
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Generate Aheui Number
Make a Number Expression is related : actually, it is also about Aheui. But it just made number expression, but this made real Aheui code.
Aheui is esolang written in only Korean character. Because of ...
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Write the longest period iterating quine bounded by 500 bytes
Your job is to create the longest period iterating quine, where the length of each program in the sequence is bounded by 500 bytes.
That is, if you repeat the following steps:
Start with your initial ...
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Code-generator with unique characters
Challenge
Your task is to write a piece of code that outputs another piece of code. That code must in turn output yet another code until the final code outputs the integer 1. The chain ends the first ...
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Generate all halting Smallfuck programs of length n
Your task is to write a program that, given a number n, returns a list of all valid, halting Smallfuck programs of length n, in any order.
Actually, we're using a variation of Smallfuck called F2, ...
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Output a program that outputs a program ... that outputs PPCG
Challenge:
Write a code that, when executed will output the source code of a second program that can be executed in another language. The second program should output the source code of a third ...
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Hyper about quines
Inspired by Hyperprogramming: N+N, N×N, N^N all in one.
Thanks to @MartinEnder and @trichoplax for their help in the sandbox.
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Hyperquines
Define a hyperquine of order n as a quine-...
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