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by mbertschler 3182 days ago
Yet our browsers blow the page up to 100 or 1000 times that.
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lifthrasiir 3182 days ago
Probably you should first consider that our browsers contain a fully capable programming system which this golfed program abuses as an expression evaluator. :-) By comparison, this C program [1] (hints are at [2]) is a stripped down spreadsheet program for X, and it only has an RPN evaluator (probably to make a room for graphing features?).

[1] http://www.ioccc.org/2000/jarijyrki.c

[2] http://www.ioccc.org/2000/jarijyrki.hint

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vidarh 3182 days ago
Hilariously Chrome offers to pass the c code through Google Translate (with predictably useless results)
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ajnin 3182 days ago
Amusingly it detects that the code for the RPN calculator is in Polish. Maybe it's smarter than it seems.
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dannyw 3182 days ago
Language detection works on language trigrams, and are trained on human language. I bet punctuation is stripped during preprocessing. So it's not surprising that code will have false positives.
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vidarh 3182 days ago
Not surprising, but still funny when applied to obfuscated code.
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