Talk:Halt and catch fire: Difference between revisions

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::::::"It should be possible to insert [a specified subset of] your submission into another program [written in the same language], presumably to help debug it."

:::::The task also asks for the minimum number of lines rather than minimum number of characters, btw. --[[User:Petelomax|Pete Lomax]] ([[User talk:Petelomax|talk]]) 12:27, 16 September 2021 (UTC)

:::::: A single line of one character is about the shortest I could think of (for the REXX example).     -- [[User:Gerard Schildberger|Gerard Schildberger]] ([[User talk:Gerard Schildberger|talk]]) 17:56, 16 September 2021 (UTC)

::::::: What? Are you being deliberately stubborn or are you ''[gratuitous and inflammatory insult self-censored]''? Let me spell it out for you: one line that consists of (say) 50 characters is '''not''' in fact any more ''lines'' than one character.... --[[User:Petelomax|Pete Lomax]] ([[User talk:Petelomax|talk]]) 19:26, 16 September 2021 (UTC)

:::::::: Neither.   There is no need to be insulting or vulgar.   I merely said that one line of one character is the shortest I could think of.   I never said (as you insultingly implied) that one line of   '''x'''   characters is less than one line of   '''y'''   characters.   I was <u>not</u> commenting on the   ''number''   of lines, just the number of ''characters''.   Please try to be civil in your choice and tone of words.   This <strike>is supposed to be a</strike> used to be a friendly website.   Name calling and insults will not bring understanding nor consensus.   It's inflammatory and insulting language like this that is giving Rosetta Code a bad reputation.   Calm down and  ''then''  compose.     -- [[User:Gerard Schildberger|Gerard Schildberger]] ([[User talk:Gerard Schildberger|talk]]) 20:08, 16 September 2021 (UTC)

::::::::: Everyone is calm here. Please educate me on how I should have responded. I am not interested in what you think I should ''not'' have said, but what you think I ''could'' have said that would be a complete and valid response to that remark, one which is ''not'' also a valid response to "This sentence ends in a full stop." Explain to me how that was ever going to add anything to the conversation. For extra bonus points also explain to me how I am not supposed to take that remark&reply as an insult to my intelligence. --[[User:Petelomax|Pete Lomax]] ([[User talk:Petelomax|talk]]) 11:07, 17 September 2021 (UTC)