Guess the Programming Language

Guess the Programming Language(tutorialzine.com)

22 points by martinaglv 11 years ago | 18 comments

nate_martin 11 years ago |

I was expecting this to be a lot less straightforward. It would be interesting to see if you could trick people by writing code in such a way that it looks like it is a different language.

bradbeattie 11 years ago | |

"In computing, a polyglot is a computer program or script written in a valid form of multiple programming languages, which performs the same operations or output independent of the programming language used to compile or interpret it." http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polyglot_(computing)

That might make it even trickier if the answer isn't a set of radio buttons, but checkboxes instead.

infogulch 11 years ago | | |

Oh, I like the checkboxes idea. That could get really interesting.

wingerlang 11 years ago |

I think this was too easy. Maybe it should group more similar languages together or something.

mutagen 11 years ago | |

The choices offered gave away too much, I was able to pick out languages I've never spent any time looking at, much less coding, from the choices offered. Make me choose from the whole list of 20 or more instead of 3 or 4 each time and I'd get less than half instead of 20/20.

Maybe I'm more aware than I give myself credit for, though.

wingerlang 11 years ago | | |

I did the same. "Well it's not C++ and not JS so it must be [language I've never paid attention before]" and yes it was.

izzydata 11 years ago |

The php one had a <?php tag at the top of it. Just saying.

LyndsySimon 11 years ago | |

That's almost a language requirement. You could use short tags, and begin the file with "<?" :)

infogulch 11 years ago |

If you've done (heck, even seen) a hello world in half of these languages, you can get the rest via elimination.

sold 11 years ago |

A harder quiz: http://helloworldquiz.com/

infogulch 11 years ago | |

I like this one much better. There are many more options, and the choices are much more closely related.

nghuuphuoc 11 years ago | |

Agree with you. HelloWordQuiz is more fun and challenges

cessor 11 years ago |

I loved the one that somehow looked like BF* but was actually JS ;)

Confusion could arise when doing python in ruby or having some subtle distinction between c and c++, but I guess the test is not made to trick people or diagnose actual language knowledge. Still, lots of fun!

eldelshell 11 years ago | |

The alert call is what makes that one easy.

diasporick 11 years ago |

I haven't written a line in half of these languages, and I got a perfect score.

I still don't know what this says about the uniqueness of programming languages or the ratio of code reading to code writing in the industry.

maninalift 11 years ago |

Am I shallow that it made me feel good getting all the answers right even though I knew most of the people who tried it would?

blt 11 years ago |

somewhere there's a much harder version, it has code that could be c/c++, c#/java, scheme/CL, except for one little distinguishing feature.

killertypo 11 years ago |

seemingly way too easy.