Interactive languages (and related issues) have afflicted me with a bunch of gripes regarding character count and program testing. Clarifying these should help coders in other languages like Mathematica and dc with similar issues. (And will also shut me up about it!)

1. How much action on the user's part (to invoke the program)? For instance, does it count if you, as in this example, make the user paste in each line?
2. How are character counted in interactive solutions? How is it counted if you, as in this example, make the user paste in each line? In that example, Eelvex counts just the characters in each row, no newlines.
3. How are special invocations counted? E.g. specifying perl command line options or using an external program like tr to filter input for dc or J. Example (Sorry, Eelvex, you're an easy target :)
4. Where a function is requested, should it be assigned a name? For instance, in this question.

Interactive languages (and related issues) have afflicted me with a bunch of gripes regarding character count and program testing. Clarifying these should help coders in other languages like Mathematica and dc with similar issues. (And will also shut me up about it!)

1. How much action on the user's part (to invoke the program)? For instance, does it count if you, as in this example, make the user paste in each line?
2. How are character counted in interactive solutions? How is it counted if you, as in this example, make the user paste in each line? In that example, Eelvex counts just the characters in each row, no newlines.
3. How are special invocations counted? E.g. specifying perl command line options or using an external program like tr to filter input for dc or J. Example (Sorry, Eelvex, you're an easy target :)
4. Where a function is requested, should it be assigned a name? For instance, in this question.

Interactive languages (and related issues) have afflicted me with a bunch of gripes regarding character count and program testing. Clarifying these should help coders in other languages like Mathematica and dc with similar issues. (And will also shut me up about it!)

1. How much action on the user's part (to invoke the program)? For instance, does it count if you, as in this example, make the user paste in each line?
2. How are character counted in interactive solutions? How is it counted if you, as in this example, make the user paste in each line? In that example, Eelvex counts just the characters in each row, no newlines.
3. How are special invocations counted? E.g. specifying perl command line options or using an external program like tr to filter input for dc or J. Example (Sorry, Eelvex, you're an easy target :)
4. Where a function is requested, should it be assigned a name? For instance, in this question.

Interactive languages (and related issues) have afflicted me with a bunch of gripes regarding character count and program testing. Clarifying these should help coders in other languages like Mathematica and dc with similar issues. (And will also shut me up about it!)

1. How much action on the user's part (to invoke the program)? For instance, does it count if you, as in this example, make the user paste in each line?
2. How are character counted in interactive solutions? How is it counted if you, as in this example, make the user paste in each line? In that example, Eelvex counts just the characters in each row, no newlines.
3. How are special invocations counted? E.g. specifying perl command line options or using an external program like tr to filter input for dc or J. Example (Sorry, Eelvex, you're an easy target :)
4. Where a function is requested, should it be assigned a name? For instance, in this question.