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Ouch, the simplicity of ck's alphabet makes me want to cry!

... and some of the others now I've had a look

QQ, contests site is down.

@Odlaw then that letter can only possibly correlate to 1-9

A + B = C

In the above, neither A, B, nor C can be 0.

Alphabet mathematics:.. says the leading digit of a term may not contain a 0. What if the term is only 1 digit?

I'd say that if we had two examples that where equal in all other ways then ya, flipping a coin would be about the best we could o.

l0ng5h0t, the judges will choose what they consider "best".

This may vary from judge to judge, one might favor the code's beauty to be the ultimate goal, one might want to see extra features popped in to make it do extra cool things.

As far as efficiency goes, as long as it runs within a reasonable timeframe, things should be alright.

Moral of all this: Just try your best, you'll be judged from multiple angles, and it is highly unlikely that we'll resort to picking a winner by random chance.

Assuming the code does what its supposed to, is it a random drawing from the pool of code that works? or is there a basis on how efficient the code runs and neat the code is?

vaeyl, I use TextMate, which just pretty much just an enhanced text editor.

I like to code with a test suite to verify my answers, and keep tinkering until all the tests pass.

Thanks for the answers. Let's see what I can come up with =)

An another note.. I am looking for a nice IDE for Lua. Maybe I am spoiled by Visual Studio, but all IDEs that I found seem rather lacking, with very hard to use debuggers... What are you using? =)

vaeyl, technically, you could implement that with lua's coroutines.

Really, for the befunge one, I'm not expecting anyone to get 100% compliance, just as much as one can do.

I plan on using http://www.phlamethrower.co.uk/befunge/fungus.php as well as other tests to test the befunge runner.

Also, the programs won't have memory issues or be too big to be absurd. I'm not going to try to trick you. Even still, you should be able support sizes outside of 80x25.

Phanx, I'm an autodidact too. Knowledge is power, and if you don't have time to do something like this, then how would you make time to go to BlizzCon? :P I strongly recommend trying to do the Alphabet Mathematics one, as it is (in my opinion) the easiest of the three.

Holding these contests is our way of rewarding those authors that are smart and apply themselves.

Oh, by the way, I will be submitting entries to all the three contests, but I am exempting myself from the winner pool, as I'm already going to BlizzCon. It'll be mostly so people can see how I achieved the solution once the contest closes.

What instruction set should we implement for the Befunge-98 contest? As far as specification goes, I've just found http://quadium.net/funge/spec98.html, but commands like i, o, = ,or y are hard to do, as may be multi-threading. =)

Also, I assume that we do not need to think about programs, too large to fit a two-dimensional lua array? Befunge-98 seems to be Turing complete, wich implies unlimited program size..

And finally: How is \n encoded, if it is part of the Befunge Source?

I'd have preferred a random drawing... as a completely self-taught programmer, I don't have the experience or knowledge to just whip any of those things up in an afternoon, and between going to work, leading raids, developing and maintaining my own addons, and the basics of eating and sleeping, I just don't have time to learn and muddle through getting something working just for this. :(

It even says so in the Alphabet mathematics task.. :)

Is it assumable that only valid input is given to the Alphabet mathematics and Befunge-98 contests, i.e that no error checking on the input is needed?