craftsay by Justyn, CCJam 2016

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craftsay is a port of cowsay for ComputerCraft.Get it now:
GitHub repo
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 3d6
While not inherently useful, this is a pretty good piece of work. Saving the messages to file would be an interesting feature, but that would only make this a little more useful.
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A good attempt, it sorta worked. It needed better documentation on how it is to be used as I struggled to get it to just say "Hello, world", as cryptic error messages such as "File does not exist or is a directory" is confusing, especially since the usage is `craftsay [text] [-flag [string]]` which implies that the only required argument is [text], when in reality it also requires a cow file to be specified with -f. I couldn't manage to make it download all cows, it just crashes with an error. It really needed better documentation, as I can't just spend my time trying to figure out what each flag does by looking at the source code. I also dislike that there are multiple ways to specify a flag. There should be at most 2, the full name of the argument and a short name. I was also a bit disappointed to see that it didn't support text wrapping when texts become really long. I can tell that you did put a good amount of effort into it (or perhaps a passion for memes). Overall, it's still a good attempt, although if you want higher marks, I recommend you to make something more useful :P (and make better documentation!).
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This was a pretty neat port of cowsay. While the command line arguments were a little confusing, it was pretty feature packed. The large variety of different cows was cool too. The main area you lost points is simply because it’s not exactly the most useful program, just a cool little thing to have.
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An amusing program to mess around with, which is based around cow. Stupidly fun to screw with, and if you need a time waster, look no further than a markov chain and this application.
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A nice port of the cowsay program found on many Linux distributions, that works perfectly with existing cowsay files. Works quite well, although scrolling for larger cows would be nice. Alternatively you can save the output to a file and then view that with an external program.