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Re:What's That Programming Language? by GigabyteCoin on Sunday May 13, 2012 @06:18PM (#3968539)
Is this in almost-alphabetical order?

I have clicked "forfeit" approximately 10 times, and all returned languages were AAABABBBCBCCCCC-esque if you know what I mean?

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Re:What's That Programming Language? by andkerosine on Sunday May 13, 2012 @07:41PM (#3968778)
The culprit:

    Array::shuffle = -> @sort -> 0.5 - Math.random()
was just too damned sexy to pass up, but it's apparently pretty bad at distribution. Running it ten times seems to have helped. : )
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