>>>>> "ABH" == Ask Bjoern Hansen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
ABH> The myth lives on. :-) It's not quite true. It was at UCLA and ABH> the story was different: ABH> http://nntp.perl.org/group/perl.advocacy;max=961 ABH> http://nntp.perl.org/group/perl.advocacy/956 Quite lame to make a programming contest in which choice of language makes all problems easier. When we were running the Duke Internet Programming Contest (mid 90's) we allowed any and all languages for which we had a compiler. The last year we ran it, that even included Ada as provided by Sun, Haskell, and of course, perl, C, C++, Pascal, FORTRAN, shell script, and probably a few more. The folks that won usually picked the right language for the right problem. All of our working solutions given at the end of the contest were written in C. Naturally, the entire judging mechanism was written in perl (version 3 even!), except the submission programs, which were in /bin/sh for portability. Ahhh, the good ol' days. ;-) -- =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Vivek Khera, Ph.D. Khera Communications, Inc. Internet: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Rockville, MD +1-240-453-8497 AIM: vivekkhera Y!: vivek_khera http://www.khera.org/~vivek/
