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What is the Coolest Program ever?

o2sh on May 27, 2019

Came to share a pretty sweet initiative from /g/ (4chan board focused on technology). The idea was to have a site where people could share and dis...

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Thomas Junkツ • May 28 '19

The coolest algorithm is IMHO sleepsort

#!/bin/bash


function f() {
    sleep "$1"
    echo "$1"
}
while [ -n "$1" ]
do
    f "$1" &
    shift
done
wait

# example usage:
# ./sleepsort.bash 5 3 6 3 6 3 1 4 7

o2sh • May 28 '19 • Edited

Yep, it's pretty nice.
It was one of my first post on codl.dev

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Ben Halpern • May 27 '19

This is really interesting!

I can definitely see some design inspiration coming from dev.to. 🙂

I've had similar thoughts about things like this we could fold in here and will take a look for inspiration.

I think the core differences between this and similar sorts of things we'd create in our community would centrally be about cultural differences between our community and /g/, and the fact that this is so focused on this one thing, whereas we're more of a bizarre.

Anyway, super well done! Thanks for sharing!! I think Codl is bound to be a hit.

o2sh • May 27 '19

Yeah, I definetly took some inspiration from dev.to

I hope you don't mind... 😉

The core idea is indeed very specific, but I hope it will grow and evolve with time.

The site is just 3 days old. ⭐️

Lamprinos Chatziioannou • May 27 '19 • Edited

Loved the idea... In fact, I think that it is the actual implementation of the good ol' Gates' words: "In order to become a great programmer, you have to study great programms". I'll surely come back soon to check for updates 😉!! Nice work!

o2sh • May 27 '19

That's nice, thx 😊

Frederik 👨‍💻➡️🌐 Creemers • May 27 '19

I think the coolest piece of code will be something that runs on a quantum computer, since the qbits need to be cooled to near absolute zero degrees.

Mikael Klages • May 28 '19

I was gonna answer "whatever they use to test superconductors"