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Symmetrically, I would consider only using sh and standard non-Turing-complete CLI tools (grep yes, awk no). About as limiting, but without devastating memory corruption bugs.



Awk is turing complete. You could do the challenges only in Awk if you wanted.


That would be too easy! :)

Well, awk suffices to write a first-person shooter: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34442528




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