How many lines of code is Darwinia?

[thezeus18]

Hi. I'm a beginning C++ programmer wondering about the amount of work I'm going to have to do. How big is it? And it's in C++, right?

[Montyphy]

Chris is l33t, he wrote it all in 42 lines. 41 of which are comments.

[xbskid]

That can technically be true if all of the carriage returns (And probably excess spaces) were removed. Then, technically, it would all be on one line (Granted it would be truncated in most text editors).

[martin]

or write darwinia as a separate subsidiary app and write the supposed version of darwina to be :

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launch_darwinia.exe

tada! one line!

[xander]

Psh... it was one line of Brainfuck.

xander

[KingAl]

And it's in C++, right?

Chris is so l337, he did it straight into machine code.

[ShepFan]

And it's in C++, right?

Chris is so l337, he did it straight into machine code.

Don't laugh! When I was writing commercial games for a big US publisher, 6502 was my second language!

Even less seriously, about the number of lines of code in Darwinia, I refer to the old coding maxims:

(1) Every program contains at least one bug.
(2) Every program can be made one byte smaller.
(3) Therefore, every program can ultimately be reduced to one byte in length.... but it'll be the wrong byte!

-S

[martin]

Psh... it was one line of Brainfuck.

xander

interesting you should say that, wondering what brainfuck was I went to wikipedia, spent a night building brainfuck programs and then spent the next day building an VM/interpreter for BrainExpletive (my own version of brainfuck that is shockingly similar):

[ begin loop
] end loop if value @ pointer is 0
+ add 1 from value @ pointer, if value is 255 then nothing after this point is executed until a ]
- minus 1 from value @ pointer, if value is 0 then nothing after this point is executed until a ]
, get data input from user
. output data in a letter form
/ output data in a numeric form
< decriment memory pointer position
> incriment memory pointer position
? clear output box
# incriment register
~ decriment register
{ open register dependant loop
} end register dependant lopp on register = 0
* put register into memory
\ put memory into register

[ghostDancer]

i allways thought that darwinia was programmed in Intercal, the only language withe famous "come from" statement.

http://catb.org/~esr/intercal/

http://www.99-bottles-of-beer.net/language-intercal-333.html

[martin]

interesting code there...

[byrneda]

This is probably the best moment to say the following (cause I know *someone* will understand!!)

"
There are only 10 types of people in the world:

- those who understand binary
- and those who don't
"

[KingAl]

Necromancy for the sake of lame, over-cited jokes. Congratulations, sir.

[Montyphy]

"There are 10 type of people in this world : Those who know ternary, those who don't, and those who think this is binary"

[KingAl]

Heh. I was actually about to post that joke in my previous post, but I thought it would be a little hypocritical.

[byrneda]

Necromancy for the sake of lame, over-cited jokes. Congratulations, sir.

Cheers mate.
Necromancy?