Rosetta Code and 8th

Ignorance and shame ...

A few days ago I proposed (in the 8th forum) to start creating examples of solutions to Rosetta Code problems using 8th as the programming language.

My intention was (and still is) to support 8th and make it much more visible to programmers and thus help the development of 8th.

That said, I made the false assumption that there wouldn't be any 8th solutions out there :-(

So, totally ignorant, I created an unoptimized version for the 100 doors problem and published that in the 8th forum.

To my great embarrassment the creator of 8th, Ron, appeared to have created and published a very nice 8th solution for this problem already. Man, did I feel like an ass ... I really couldn't sleep the night after because being so ashamed :-(

After that I found out there are already a lot of 8th solutions out there.

Lessons learnt ...

Having learnt from my ignorance I now will be careful and pick Rosetta Code problems for which there isn't an 8th solution yet ;-)

That said, I learnt a second lesson: not only to use Google first, but also have a look at the samples provided with 8th. I really hadn't looked at them before.

Amongst them is the now (for me) famous 8th solution by Ron to the "100 doors" problem.

I have alreaddy skimmed the samples and saw how helpful these can be. I surely will make good use of the embedded knowledge in them in the future.

Would you like to help writing solutions?

I do not know if many people read this. But if you do and you happen to be a programmer, please consider solving one of the Rosetta Code problems using 8th and discuss it in the 8th forum in the "Sample Code" section!