Pollyanna

lukas · Post by **lukas** » Wed Dec 03, 2008 11:12 pm

Nice challenge!

the_impaler · Post by **the_impaler** » Thu Dec 04, 2008 7:02 pm

polyglot program is usually written in more than one language.
What would be the name of the second language here ? Or better put it , how would we call it ?
I think one of didactic texts is using it too. And lotsa-dotsa.
"bit chat" ? "hacker choker" ?

m!nus · Post by **m!nus** » Thu Dec 04, 2008 7:31 pm

ruby and whitespace.
fortunately whitespace was available in the ubuntu repository.

this was a 3 minute challange!
took me 1 second to recognize ruby, saw the many whitespaces a few seconds later and realized it could be whitespace aswell. because of lazyness i ran the ruby one first. polyglot. clearly, time for `wspace pollyanna.txt`

MerickOWA · Post by **MerickOWA** » Fri Dec 05, 2008 6:58 pm

Yea this was fun, didn't know about polyglot's until now

I recognized the ruby, had to google polyglot, and found a website showing a 6 language polygot! It also used whitespace, so since there was not other obvious text in the program i tried that and it worked!

Had the hardest time for a while tho, I was working on "Execution Style" at the same time and tried to submit my answer to that problem for Pollyanna... and then thought Pollyanna was a further clue to the end result of the "Execution Style" answer, which led me on a wild goose chase through websites looking for a possible answer until i realized my mistake ><

tog · Post by **tog** » Thu Dec 11, 2008 10:43 am

Having recognized ruby I searched for languages with similar syntax. I thought that the computation is slightly different in that language (maybe the **-operator), so that it changes the output. I even tried different implementations of ruby (thinking about possible overflows).

Of course, I had no luck until I finally found the whitespaces at the end.

megabreit · Post by **megabreit** » Fri Jan 01, 2010 10:13 pm

I was missing "whitespace" all along the challenges... but I did not expect it in this challenge

Anyway, funny challenge; even if it took me months to solve it

moose · Post by **moose** » Thu Jul 21, 2011 1:40 pm

This is so crazy! Thanks for this challenge! I've just created a polyglot with three languages:
my blog

Sun Jun 17, 2012 12:19 pm

Nice challenge. Polyglots are quite cool.

dangermouse · Post by **dangermouse** » Mon Jun 18, 2012 8:42 pm

did not recognize Ruby

so i wrote a Python one, thinking it was some Octave/Mathematica/Maple thing:

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#!/bin/python
import math
a=[[[3,1],[5,1],[821,1],[273997,1],[7741805910970258163,1]],[[2,2],[107,1],[244219007447,1],[95966808334871,1]],[[2,2],[7,3],[919,1],[56951,1],[103160249,1],[4656410419,1]],[[2,3],[17,1],[177693403,1],[414883089729841223,1]],[[3,1],[31,1],[4951,1],[1346989159,1],[50461897989311,1]],[[7,2],[79,1],[241,1],[4271,1],[48523,1],[1051181,1],[176838479,1]],[[2,1],[1475709031,1],[12177009148932085937,1]],[[6323573,1],[4753519027288416018457,1]],[[2,1],[18164960872674393974925145111,1]]]
for i in range(0,len(a)):
	n=1
	for j in range(0,len(a[i])):
		n*=a[i][j][0]**a[i][j][1]
	s=''
	for k in range(0, int(round((math.log(n,2))/(math.log(256,2))))):
		s=chr(n%256)+s     	     
		n=n/256
	print s

i saw the whitespaces and thought it was encoded with www.spammimic.com, i then tried the decode sentence as it would be malbolge...
then i tried a whitespace online tool which did not work. only the Ubuntu package worked, and it is compiled for AMD64, wow Linux is really getting cute!

Hippo · Post by **Hippo** » Tue Apr 15, 2014 3:27 pm

It took me several tries to write two r's in the answer

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