Welcome to the first Cohost Programming-ish contest!
Since we've got all of this space available to Post, why not use it for a good ol' coding-ish competition, open to programmers and ESPECIALLY NON-PROGRAMMERS WHO WANT TO BE PROGRAMISHERS!
Contest Question
Using a programming-ish language of your own devising, solve or at least move the reader in a vague direction generally toward what might possibly be a solution to, or at least an addressing of, the Simplified FizzBuzz Problem.
Description of the problem is included in the Read More section of the post.
What is a programming-ish language?
A programming-ish language is any way of conveying a solution, or a path toward a solution, to a problem via a Post on Cohost. Note that the solution, or path toward solution, need only be reasonable to the programisher. Rather than being restricted to the "right answer", the contentment of the programisher with their work is the mark of quality in the field of programming-ish.
The only limitation is that your answer is not an actual existing programming language because those are boring and stupid and already well covered in other "boring and stupid" contests.
Your programmingish language does not need to be compilable to any instruction set (either real or fictional), nor does it need to be written. It can be an essay, a CSS crime that's a representation of whatever you think the solution to the problem is, video of interpretive dance, a shitpost, a combination of everything mentioned, etc...
If you MUST create your own actual programming language for this, please make sure that ideas of such needless things as "syntactic correctness" and "type soundness" and "ability to compile" do not get in the way of your programmingish contentment.
Your contest entry just needs to be Chostable. And not boring and stupid (actual already existing programming).
How do I enter?
Simply make your post and tag it with cohost programmingish contest
Because no one else has abused the tag system lately, right?
Who will be judging this?
Other than The Almighty God (of your choosing), anyone who searches the timeline for #cohost programmingish contest can and will judge you.
What can I win?
The respect of eggbug. (You already have the love of eggbug, as we all do after performing the Ascension Of The Queue, but now you'll get the respect.)
Also you can put on your resume that you've won a programming-ish competition, which is incredibly lucrative in all job markets that aren't boring and stupid.
Where can I see entries?
Entries are available via cohost tag search.
Are there any example entries?
Whatever thoughts you have in your head after reading this is your example.
Once we've run a few of these contests to see how things catch on, we'll begin construction of a new cohost based Stack Overflow equivalent for programmingish questions.
The Simplified FizzBuzz Problem
Given an integer n, your programmingish code should discern and communicate the following:
- "FizzBuzz" if n is divisible by 3 and 5.
- "Fizz" if n is divisible by 3.
- "Buzz" if n is divisible by 5.
- n (the number itself) if none of the above is true
In normal programming languages every number between 0 and n would be processed, but as this is the first programmingish contest, your solution may process one number at a time. Entries that process more than one integer at a time will be awarded a comment of "oh aren't you fancy".
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This came out of a discussion I had with someone earlier today that was basically "is there really anything you can do with programming problems other than... just programming? Could a programming competition question be a fluxus prompt?"
