Talk:Fractran: Difference between revisions

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Why does the task have to tack on a text parsing requirement? It's irrelevant to the fraction Turing machine, and simply distracting. Why not let people focus on the important stuff? --[[User:Ledrug|Ledrug]] ([[User talk:Ledrug|talk]]) 17:19, 23 January 2014 (UTC)
:I can argue this one both ways. On the one hand, we generally don't try to hide the ugly design choices of language designers, but let people post solutions to demonstrate all those ugly design choices, because it makes our own languages look prettier. <tt>:-)</tt> On the other hand, if Fractran <i>is</i> a programming language, one would expect it to have some parsing requirements. --[[User:TimToady|TimToady]] ([[User talk:TimToady|talk]]) 18:04, 23 January 2014 (UTC)
 
:It seems to be a simple thing to do. I took it to mean parsing a format similar to that used in the task description. --[[User:Paddy3118|Paddy3118]] ([[User talk:Paddy3118|talk]]) 20:46, 23 January 2014 (UTC)
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