From: "Daniel."To: lang@esoteric.sange.fi, friends-of-brainfuck@koeln.ccc.de, bfgolf@yahoogroups.com Reply-to: lang@esoteric.sange.fi Subject: [lang] Brainfuck Golf 2: Sorting. Date: Sun, 08 Dec 2002 21:41:15 -0800 Sender: lang-bounce@esoteric.sange.fi Sender: misc-bounce@esoteric.sange.fi The next Brainfuck Golf contest runs from now until the end of 12/23/02, GMT/UTC. The challenge is to write the shortest brainfuck sort program that: -follows the rules outlined at http://brainfuck.sourceforge.net/rules.html. -reads input which may consist of any nonnegative number of bytes with values in the range 1-255, terminated by a 0. -outputs the bytes read (excluding the final 0) in ascending order (obviously, preserving the length of the file and the counts of the individual characters). Then calculate your program's MD5 (for information see http://userpages.umbc.edu/~mabzug1/cs/md5/md5.html ) and submit the MD5 before the deadline to the Brainfuck Golf forum at http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=201037 along with your name/alias and the number of brainfuck commands you used. The actual source code should be submitted to the same forum after the deadline. Any questions should be posted there too. It accepts anonymous postings. Other little notes: -It might be a good idea to put comments in your code before calculating the MD5. A little paranoid, yes, but still possibly a good idea. -It is explicitly allowed to use published code as a starting point. -Good luck. -Daniel B. Cristofani.