jabberzac / gobsprogram

Gob's Program? Y/N

Gob's Program:

Gob's Program serves as a demonstration of various important concepts in programming such as text formatting, processing user input and infinite loops. It has been implemented in as many languages as possible to serve as a useful resource for beginners and advanced programmers alike.

For information on contributing, please refer to the Gob's Program Wiki.

How I run?????

BBC BASIC

Gob's Program Project 10th Anniversary Special Edition!

Run Gob's Program interactively on a web-site page!

Or type it into your BBC Micro at home if you want, do whatever, I'm not your mum.

C++

$ g++ gobsprogram.cpp -o program
$ ./program

Python

$ ./gobsprogram.py
OR
$ python gobsprogram.py

VBScript

double click it while using windows

Perl

$ ./gobsprogram.pl

OR

$ perl gobsprogram.pl

Ruby

$ ./gobsprogram.rb
OR
$ ruby gobsprogram.rb

Java

$ javac GobsProgram.java
$ java GobsProgram

Emojicode

$ emojicodec gobsprogram.🍇
$ ./gobsprogram

PowerShell (lol)

PowerShell 5:

PS C:\Users\User> Set-ExecutionPolicy -Scope Process Unrestricted
PS C:\Users\User> .\gobsprogram.ps1

PowerShell 6 (Windows):

PS C:\Users\User> Set-ExecutionPolicy -Scope Process Unrestricted
PS C:\Users\User> Unblock-File gobsprogram-6.ps1
PS C:\Users\User> .\gobsprogram-6.ps1

PowerShell 6 (not Windows) (lol harder):

$ pwsh
PS /home/user> .\gobsprogram-6.ps1

Golang

$ go run gobsprogram.go

PHP

$ php gobsprogram.php

Scala

scalac gobsprogram.scala
scala GobsProgram

Rust

rustc gobsprogram.rs
./gobsprogram

gobsprogram's Issues

invalid size constraints

The source type rainbow is of uneven width and doesn't quite resemble Benco's burned rainbow flag.

This should be fixed immediately, if not sooner.

Penus Columns

I think we've made a bad assumption about the operation of Gob's Program. As displayed in the TV show, the output forms columns. This cannot be an accident of output length and screen size.

The display of the computer in the show is clearly 40 columns. Programs based on our current concept of looping and printing "Penus" followed by a double space would wrap evenly at 42 columns.

The original Gob's Program must either be doing conditional printing of the trailing double space based on number of Penuses output so far, or (I think possibly most likely) is printing a single string of 40 characters:

Penus__Penus__Penus__Penus__Penus__Penus

We need to either require that the programs determine the screen width and print "Penus" only as many times as necessary to not wrap, or to assume a 40 column display and output accordingly.