Joseph N. Hall wrote:
> No, it's because the ACM competition is about solving problems
> constructively, not using built-in language features.
Uh huh. So I guess only machine language is permitted.
> Using
> Perl is like entering a moped in the Boston marathon.
Dubious analogy.
I think what's really going on is, the problems posed are
designed -- perhaps not intentionally -- to be challenging
when attacked with certain low-level languages.
This is legitimate, of course. But in a world with
approachable and widely deployed high-level languages
like Perl, one wonders how relevant such a contest is.
And I wonder which, if any, other languages have been
similarly banned.
--
John Porter
"There are people who have fun studying the C++ spec for
literally seconds on end, I'm sure..." John Vlissides
