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The 20 Line Challenge / An idea for new rules:

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UberTuba
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Posted: 1st Feb 2003 15:31
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1 :you are only allowed 100 cammands, but as many lines as you want

This makes code much more readable, and allows use of essential if commands , but he macimum number of commands is unchanged
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Posted: 1st Feb 2003 18:04
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It would certainly make the damn things easier to code and read and (god forbid) to include comments

How would you class this though?

if a>0 then print a

Is that one or two commands? It's one using the original rules.
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UberTuba
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No, sorry but it's two in the original rules, and i think it should be the same in the new ones (if they are ever made official)

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UberTuba
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"allows use of essential if commands"
sorry i meant more essential if commands.all commands after an if statement are used only if the if stetement is true, so often you cannot go up to the maxmum
5 commands per line

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Yeah, but the "100 command challenge" doesn't have the same ring to it

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To get round that, I omit the 'then' and stick an endif after the block, counting it only as one command (plus whatever is in the if endif block). The example given would be:

if a>0: print a: endif

and wouldn't mess up the rest of the line.

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So that counts as 2 commands then?

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Yea, I do it the same way.

I just count it as 2 commands.

20 Lines is 20 lines, not 100.

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OR you can code your proggy for the 20 line challange in a nice-easy-to-read format, and post an official version and an easy on the eyes version...

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Hamish McHaggis
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Posted: 29th Mar 2003 17:07
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2 commands! I could have done my recent code in 18 lines then!

Why the hell'd you ask me for crying out loud!?!
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I am currently writing a 20-line Challenge expander to convert code into easy reading. It replaces ":" with new characters and indents code as necessary.

Current Project: Retro Compo. Entry.
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it seems that people don't listen to the "5 commands per line" anyway... i've seen 10 commands on one line tons o times, and even the "quake 3 arena" won with more than 10 commands on 1 line

MY POINT:

people would make a lot more than 100 commands, and even if 20 * 5 commands is the same as 100 commands, Rich even said in:

http://www.darkbasicpro.com/apollo/view.php?t=560&b=11

that you could put x-tra lines and comments on the code...

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I would rather increase the commands allowed per line - but keep it limited to 20 lines. Comments have always been allowed and never counted to the line total. The point of this competition was never to have everyone post readable code others could learn from, it was to impress people to be honest.

Am going to modify the rules post now.

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Hamish McHaggis
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25 Commands Per Line?!?!?! Wow, that should make it alot easier, but dbpro people will have the advantage since 25 commands usually wont fit into 255 characters!

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damn......25 command...really to much..
why not keep the 5 line..rule..?
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Yeah, maybe, but you can get much better stuff with 25 commands and It'll still be a challange to beat other people.

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I thought the hard part was trying to fit it in 20 lines with only 5 commands on a line?

Its not alot easier, now its not a challenge at all. If each line has 5 times as many commands, that means that you can have up to 500 commands.
Maybe 10 or even 15 commands, but not 25.

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5 was perfeft.... 25 is far too much.... lets go WE WANT OUR 5 command max
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Posted: 3rd Apr 2003 03:35
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No, you can't have 500 commands - the second you introduce any kind of logic you're ending the line effectively.

If you want to keep it to 5 commands per line then do so, stop moaning about it, I'm not changing it!

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Maybe people should state in their entry whether they are using the new 25 command-per-line rule or the old 5 command-per-line rule. What I liked about the old rules was that 20 lines with 5 commands isn't actually very much, yet you can still program a lot of varied stuff in there (like quake 3). It doesn't take very long to fill 100 lines, the ripples 'n' lights were done in about 20 minutes, quake 3 took longer. Enter the matrix took even longer, because of the text effect, the 3d bit was just taken from quake 3. 500 lines will take ages to fill. The trick is stuffing it all into the 20 lines when you're done.

You can have 500 commands if you have no logic at all, just a rolling demo.

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