What's That Programming Language?

Yeah, if you click that "?" image on the upper right, it explains how it works. Most unusual UI I've ever seen. That text field should just have a button called "submit". That would be the most obvious thing to do.

It is also broken on TLS. But to be fair, the ? text says " If it seems borked, your guess is wrong. "

I think shitty is a bit strong. Unusual, but there's a big '?' to click on that tells you how to use it. Once you've read that it's possible && easy to use without ever moving you hands to the mouse again.

Good catch. I was about to just give up after feeling kind of stupid.

And the other half looks like Lisp :-)

Those are the ones that took me the longest. There are so many minor variations of C/Java/Javascript/Lisp that it takes a while to figure out which one you are looking at.

It's the languages with very distinctive features that can be guessed quickly (assuming you have seen them before) e.g. cobol, erlang & also joke languages like intercal, brainfuck, chef etc.

It should be "hard." If you know anywhere near all of them, that probably means you've dabbled in lots of things but never really any one in depth. (Or, you literally do nothing else in your life but code.)

Hit escape to advance. It's a weird UI.

Goes the other way too. I misidentified Fortran of all things because their dialect is far too new compared to what I remember (more than) a quarter century ago.

Yes, httpseverywhere breaks it here...

Seriously, this almost seems like they went out of their way to make an unintuitive page. Who makes a form field without an enter button? And the forfeit box covers the input.

clicking on forfeit gets you the answer ( which is a shortcut for hitting "ESC" ) but it looks like you can only use Escape to go to the next question.

pretty cool quiz, i definitely don't know hardly any of these...

Nor in Firefox here, FWIW. Pity, it might have been fun.

It probably does, it's just an unintuitive interface. Read the explanation on the page by clicking the question mark (or read my explanation here on HN in response to the now deleted comment).

I know, I had trouble with that as well, but then I read the explanations you get if you click the question mark in the upper right corner. I will try my own explanation here.

Type your answer in the box, if you type 2 or more characters, there will be an auto complete list of matches.

If nothing happens when you choose an answer, then it's wrong.

When you choose the right answer, it will immediately switch to the next question.

If you don't know the answer you can click Forfeit or press Esc. To get rid of the correct answer that pops up when you do so and go to the next question, you have to press Esc (I didn't find a way to go to the next answer just by clicking with the mouse).

You have to guess right for it to go on, otherwise forfeit.

A lot of similar looking languages easily tripped me up, I found I had to pay much closer attention to some of the definition sections to differentiate

well, at least for D: at the top there is 'import std.stdio;', which signifies importing one of the main modules in the language. Along with the C like syntax and writeln function, I was able to get it pretty quick. But, I've been doing all my personal projects in D for the past few weeks, so there's no surprise I got it.