The goal: Any language. The smallest function which will return whether a string is a palindrome. Here is mine in Python:
R=lambda s:all(a==b for a,b in zip(s,reversed(s)))
50 characters.
The accepted answer will be the current smallest one - this will change as smaller ones are found. Please specify the language your code is in.
PHP:
or, just
18 character perl regex
Golfscript, 5 char
Clojure using 37 characters:
Haskell, 28 chars, needs Control.Arrow imported.
With C# and LINQ operators:
If you consider Reverse as cheating, you can do the entire thing with a reduction: