On Thu, 11 Oct 2012, Arkady English wrote: > Does "length of a program" need to be defined? (In characters, I guess?) > > In addition, you may want to include provisions for the contest master > to check that entries actually work.
Sorry, yes, I was leaving out the details of BF implementation itself as it's pretty textbook. But: 1. "Length" is count of all legal BF characters. Complete set is: ><+-.,[] All other characters and whitespace are ignored (to encourage comments, etc). Language reference to be used is http://esolangs.org/wiki/brainfuck. I'll provide a copy of the (pretty trivial) compiler I'm using, that includes producing the official character count of a program and also has some minimal debugging tools (e.g. a memory dump). 2. Contestmaster will test all entries as quickly as possible and privately inform contestants if they succeeded in all test cases or where they broke, hopefully in time for revised entries to be attempted.
