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Tips for making a compiler that generates a golfed program

I would like to create a language that is specifically designed for compiling/translating to another Turing tarpit language. I want to make the program of the target language to be as short as ...
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Peg solitaire starting position

Write a program/function to output a peg solitaire board in its starting position: くろまる くろまる くろまる くろまる くろまる くろまる くろまる くろまる くろまる くろまる くろまる くろまる くろまる くろまる くろまる くろまる しろまる くろまる くろまる くろまる くろまる くろまる くろまる くろまる くろまる くろまる くろまる くろまる くろまる くろまる くろまる くろまる くろまる ...
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Find the first relabeling

I had this problem come up for me recently and I thought it would make a fun code-golf. You will receive as input a list of positive integers. e.g. ...
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A million and one constants

When code golfing, it can be useful to write numbers succinctly. This challenge involves using a source language to generate code for a target language. For the submission to be valid, it must ...
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How does the NSDT program end?

Challenge: NSDT is like a calculus model invented by me that contains only 4 commands and grouping. Your task is to check in which way the program ends. The program is read from left to right. There ...
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Emoji-art sunburst

Write a program or function to output an N x N sunburst image made of red, orange and yellow emoji icons. For N=40, it should look roughly like this: ...
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Output the colour code of a given resistance

Should be relatively easy to do, given an input of a resistance (in ohms) and a tolerance (%), output the colour codes for a 4 band resistor, left to right. Input will always be a valid ohm value and %...
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Autocomplete a word at the cursor position

You will be given a block of text and a cursor position at the end of a possibly incomplete word. You must output a suggestion for what this word (let's call it w) ...
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Sum of Neighbours in a 2D Grid

This is the 2D version of Sum of neighbours: Given a 2D grid of integers, output a grid of the same size where each cell contains the sum of the values of its orthogonal and diagonal neighbors (up to ...
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Implement 2x using the polynomial system

Your job is to implement \2ドル^x\$ using polynomials, such that in a way that for all integers \$x\$ and \$y\,ドル $$\exists(v_0,v_1,\dots)[P_1(x,y,v_0,v_1,v_2,\cdots) = 0 \land P_2(x,y,v_0,v_1,v_2,\cdots)=...
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Exit a pinball board

You will be given a pinball board with a ball on it. Determine where the ball will exit the board. The ball will fall straight down, unless obstructed by a left or right bumper, in which case it will ...
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Render a polygon...in ASCII [closed]

Given the anti-clockwise points of a properly formed, non-self-intersecting, not-necessarily-convex polygon, render it as a filled ASCII art polygon. Input A series of at least 3 (x,y) pairs ...
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Code Golfing in Bash

I'm pretty new to code golfing, but I recently came across a guy on Kattis that consistently has exactly 5 character Bash solutions for some problems. For example, here is a leaderboard showing his 5 ...
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Unroll the loop!

A loop is a rectangle of text like this: hgf ile jkd abc To unroll it, you start at the bottom left, and proceed to the right, spiralling anti-clockwise in towards ...
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"e" ejects the letters. Re-enter them

Overview I have a sample of 10 quotes. You will receive as input to your program one of these quotes, however all the vowels (aeiou) will be replaced with the ...

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