Description Programming languages Super Trump
System administrator Johann Weiher finally wanted to know which programming language is the best and started his own project on Startnext.
His idea: to combine the different languages such as JavaScript, C++, Ruby or Lolcode in one Programming languages super trump card (also known as a quartet) against each other to finally find out for sure!
Crowdfunding makes such nerdy ideas possible and now we can all join in the programming fun :)
On 32 playing cards is a selection of well-known and rather unknown programming languages, even from the field of "esotericism"is represented. In typical Supertrumpf style, you can then pit them against each other in different categories:
Appeared (year of publication): The earlier the code appeared, the higher the chance of winning the round!
Distribution (Distribution): The higher number wins. The basis for the simplified values 1-8 comes from the TIOBE Index.
Dialects (dialects): A high number wins.
Nerdfactor: Some languages are nerdier than others. A nerd can certainly decipher the values on their own, but here's another hint to help: 00000101 = 5, 00000111 = 7, 00010111 = 23, 00101010 = 42. Of course, the highest nerd factor wins!
HelloWorld.Length (Length): To have a basis for determining the length, the typical "Hello World" was used. Shorter codes beat the longer ones here.
The available languages in the game (mind you: a selection) are the following:
Ada, Assembly, Basic, Brainfuck, C, C#, C++, COBOL, Cow, Delphi, Erlang, Fortran, Go, Groovy, Haskell, Java, JavaScript, Lisp, Logo, LOLCODE, Lua, MATLAB, Objective-C, Pascal, Perl, PHP, Prolog, Python, R, Ruby, Visual Basic.NET and Whitespace.
