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I'm sad they don't have an achievement for writing >= N lines of code and having it compile (and not crash) on the first try.

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Given that Visual Studio underlines all your compilation errors and lists them in the Error List as you write your code, I don't see how this would work.

It would be part of the upcoming Hardcore mode, in which not only are intellisense and on-the-fly error checking disabled, but if your code fails to compile first time, it deletes the entire source tree.

Wouldn't that be more aptly named 'Nightmare mode?'

Or perhaps the slightly longer "Better Get It Right The First Time" mode?

Commodore mode.

I found "Hardcore" more appropriate; reminds me of Diablo 2's Hardcore mode where your character can't be recovered after any single death. "Nightmare" takes me back to Doom where it was just a harder mode, without the extra "permanent death" rule.

Sorry, that's my pedantry out of the way for the morning :)

I gather GHC actually used to do more-or-less this[1] (delete your source if you had type errors). Now that's a way to build discipline :)

[1]: http://www.reddit.com/r/haskell/comments/kmk6q/the_best_ghc_...

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