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Re:What is the coolest thing you can do in ten lines of code? by fauldsh on Friday December 30, 2011 @07:19PM (#3409650)
I'd have said that for impressing people with small pieces of code something like SecondLife scripting would be ideal. You can manipulate objects in a 3d environment using simple code. Who doesn't enjoy programming a gun?
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Re:What is the coolest thing you can do in ten lines of code? by statictype on Friday December 30, 2011 @09:11PM (#3409884)
Also COM scripting on Windows (and presumably Applescript on the Mac).

Sure there's a lot of special keyword magic involved, but nothing will get people more excited about programming than seeing how they can easily automate their routine tasks to make their life easier - that's what programming is supposed to be about anyway.

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Re:What is the coolest thing you can do in ten lines of code? by rmgraham on Friday December 30, 2011 @09:40PM (#3409937)
You could probably stuff Node into this category too, if your target is the type to be impressed with writing their own basic web server in 10 lines of code.
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