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: Of course, it will still be trivial in some languages anyway (cf. Raku) though there are may others where it's difficult to avoid quotation marks when dealing with string or character literals. --[[User:PureFox|PureFox]] ([[User talk:PureFox|talk]]) 20:04, 9 December 2021 (UTC)
::That's what I figured; either the task is basically just "Hello World", or it locks out languages where output requires quotation marks. I am not super enthusiastic about either alternative. [[User:Thebigh|Thebigh]] ([[User talk:Thebigh|talk]]) 20:08, 9 December 2021 (UTC)
== Draft Revision==
I would like to propose revising the task description along the following lines:
Preamble: The "Code Golf:" prefix is intended for tasks in which a
metric of "code size" other than code length is the focus.
To contrast the difference, this particular page asks authors to
contrast a simple measure of code length with a syntax-oriented metric
of size that conforms to the following principle:
* if E and F are functionally equivalent programs, and if E can be
obtained from F by decreasing its length (e.g. by shortening
identifiers or removing white space or punctuation), then E and F have
the same "code size".
Task:
Consider the class of programs, G, that emit the nine characters in the string "Code Golf",
and define H as the instances of G that do not themselves contain string or character
literals.
(1) Specify a metric for measuring program length (e.g. bytes or codepoints)
and show a shortest instance of G using that metric.
(2) Using the same metric as in (1), show a shortest instance of H.
(3) Show a shortest instance of G in the sense that no further reduction
by changing identifiers or removing characters is possible.
(4) Same as (3) but for H.
Extra points:
a) give some informative details about the run-time space requirements
of the shortest intance of G given in (1). Alternatively, for
languages such as C, show the size of the stand-alone executable
produced by one particular compiler on one particular platform.
b) give or reference a script or program for measuring code size in
accordance with the principle (*) above.
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Please comment, or should I just post the revision so that others may improve it?
[[User:Peak|Peak]] ([[User talk:Peak|talk]])
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