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It seems to me that if (when) the 'standard' implementation of a language evolves, then various code specimens will spontaneously break. This kind of "bit rot" can be avoided by providing a simple test case, and a hint to which was the "works with"/"last known good" implementation/release. This is particularly important with languages that are evolving. But even well defined and static languages there are areas that have been missed by the standard definition (IF they even have a standard definition). These issues will only be discovered if the somewhere there is reference to which implementation/release was used when the code specimen was submitted.
Also as the
Previously I have had numerous problems with python code samples that use the newer language features. C code often generates different results on 8 bit CPUs with 16 bit ''ints''. I have encountered a couple of
It reminds me a bit of the "[http://www.navy.mil/navydata/questions/litehuse.html lighthouse urban myth]". Your call!
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