99 ways to program a hex, Part 31, has been delayed indefinitely

Yesterday's version [1] is the last version I'll be posting for now. When I was initially inspired, I ripped through a majority of what you've seen in just three days. It's not really surprising given that a majority of the “variations” differed by a line or two of code.

But I've run out. And now, having done 21 variations in C (one more than I originally planned [2]), five in Lua (I could do one more in Lua—the actual original code I based the Lua versions off of, but oddly enough, it doesn't actually handle files), two in a dialect of BASIC I can't currently test and two I didn't expect in C♯ (both submitted by Jeff Cuscutis [3]), I don't think I have it in me to do many more.

I've exhausted C. And I pretty much exhausted Lua [4], which are my two “go to” languages these days. I could probably push out a couple of Perl [5] versions, and a PHP [6] version (PHP does not have nearly the expressiveness [7] of Lua or even Perl to bother with more than one version) but that's about the limit.

There are a few other languages I could do (Common Lisp [8], Scheme [9], SNOBOL [10] (seriously!), Forth [11], Awk [12], Erlang [13], Python [14] and Ruby [15]) but those would require significant time hitting up documentation and what not because I don't know those langauges all that well (if at all).

So I'll probably continue this series, but it'll probably be a post or two every few months and not every XXXXXXX day as I have been doing.

[1] /boston/2012/02/07.1

[2] /boston/2012/02/03.1

[3] http://spinthecat.blogspot.com/

[4] http://www.lua.org/

[5] http://www.perl.org/

[6] http://www.php.net/

[7] http://webonastick.com/php.html

[8] http://www.clisp.org/

[9] http://schemers.org/

[10] http://www.snobol4.org/

[11] http://www.forth.org/

[12] http://www.gnu.org/software/gawk/manual/gawk.html

[13] http://www.erlang.org/

[14] http://python.org/

[15] http://ruby-lang.org/

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