@l0wk3y @p Go is a language I'm looking forward to trying out later! It seems pretty cool.

@yohanandiamond @l0wk3y Are you doing a tour of languages? That's awesome, I think too many people pick one and stick with it, but if you learn a new language, it changes how you write code in the other languages you know.

@p @l0wk3y yup, I'm trying out a new language almost every day this end of December and the month of January.

@yohanandiamond @p @l0wk3y@freespeechextremist.com I always like to start new langues here:

https://www.omniglot.com/language/phrases/index.htm

@Absinthe @yohanandiamond @l0wk3y Programming languages.

When I do a programming language, I usually go with "Hello, World!", then 99 Bottles of Beer ( http://99-bottles-of-beer.net/abc.html ), then Project Euler #31 ( https://projecteuler.net/problem=31 ).

@p @yohanandiamond @l0wk3y@freespeechextremist.com

The first #Toyprogrammingchallenge I put up was for 99 Bottles of Beer. However, I added the twist, that it has to output text only, no numerals. So it was for "Ninety-nine Bottles of Beer".

Feel free to give it a shot at :

https://qoto.org/@Absinthe/102805659580967435

@Absinthe @yohanandiamond @l0wk3y That's fun! I think you could save some effort by putting "ones" and "teens" into the same array.

@p @l0wk3y @Absinthe I'll take looks at these when I start today's session, thanks!
I've been setting something I call "HelloWorldX", which is a series of small tasks to explore the language. It's pretty messy, though, and I still need to adjust it a lot.

@yohanandiamond @l0wk3y @Absinthe Ah, yeah? That's cool.

The reason I like those two to follow up "Hello, World!" is that for 99 Bottles of Beer you get trivial loops and I/O, functions usually. Project Euler 31 lends itself to a lot of different styles, like pattern-matching or using a hash table to memoize calculations, it lets you play with the language some by trying out different data structures and things like that.

@p @yohanandiamond @l0wk3y@freespeechextremist.com I still want to find a good all purpose "Toy" program. I might dig through some of the AdventOfCode stuff this year, as I loved some of his problems. Getting interrupted half way through with my Tahiti trip (poor me :D ) kind of stopped me at day 10 for the time being, but I liked the potential of his IntCode computer and things like that.

Who knows, soon time to get back to coming up with more #toyprogrammingchallenge problems again. Feel free to participate or suggest some as well.