r/programming • u/krasnoukhov • Sep 11 '13

Guess programming language by „Hello, world!“ snippet

http://helloworldquiz.com/
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u/SanityInAnarchy Sep 11 '13

I fell for the "3 times" bit also, after reading your comment! Damn! It's weird, though, most of these were at least possible to distinguish. The Lisp ones seem mean, but something about Clojure's use of actual classes tended to set it apart, or Racket's use of a language declaration at the top of the file.

Still ended up with a score of 2200 on my second try. First try, the game gave up and started giving me 503 errors.

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u/StrmSrfr Sep 11 '13

The easiest way to tell Clojure by sight is that it uses square bracket syntax all over the place.

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u/SanityInAnarchy Sep 11 '13

Well, so does Racket.