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Re:First Go challenge – binary decoding by zak_mc_kracken on Sunday March 01, 2015 @12:04AM (#9126096)
> try solving the challenge using Rust, Ruby, Scala, Elixir, JS, Pascal, asm

Java is strangely absent from that list :)

Re:First Go challenge – binary decoding by mattetti on Sunday March 01, 2015 @12:14AM (#9126116)
Java is totally fine, just not a language I expect the fancy HN crowd to pick for a programming challenge (Note that I also didn't mention Python, C# and plenty other good languages).
Re:First Go challenge – binary decoding by dalke on Sunday March 01, 2015 @05:05AM (#9126583)
Glad to read you think I'm a plain Python programmer. Fancy code is hard to read and maintain. ;)