Write a program to print the sum of the ascii codes of the program

PHP, m4, and other cat-like languages: 150

150

Found this solution using a simple Haskell program to brute-force it:

f :: String -> Bool
f s = (read s :: Int) == (sum . map fromEnum) s

main = mapM_ print [filter f $ sequence $ replicate n ['0'..'9'] | n <- [1..10]]

Brainf*ck, 255

-.¤

This will not print the number 255, but rather the 255th ASCII character.

This might be considered cheating because the BF compiler skips over the ¤.


wc, prints 0

Someone said "cat-like languages", so...

An empty file:



Execute with wc -c file.wc. At 0 bytes, I think this is the winner in the 'not really a programming language' category.

Also

cat, prints 80 (base 13)

80

No terminating newline, the number 8013 is equivalent to 104 in decimal. You can go shorter with 6017 (102 dec), but I figured "base 13" would be worth more geek points.

EDIT: New wc example, this one can be run as a program.

#!/usr/bin/wc
ÿÿzw17

(As encoded in Latin-1 - the ÿ is a byte with value 255)

Sum of bytes is 2223, output is:

  2  2 23 ./w