Andrew Savige schreef:
> It seems that Python golf tournaments have started:
>
> http://www.pycontest.net/
>
> except they don't call it golf, instead describing it as
> "shortest python coding contest".
There's a link to a usenet discussion on that site; some of my
observations:
* Complaints about the competition started at the first reply to the
announcement:
"What I dislike a bit is the winning criterion:
Shortest possible Python module?
I'm envisioning lots of convoluted one-liners which
are more suitable to a different P-language... :-)"
* After that, people started to enjoy it tremendously... proving that
under the glossy shiny pythony outside, all real programmers are perl
golfers on the inside really.
* The next competition will be judged by a criterium more suited to
python. Who wants to bet that the "most elegant python coding contest"
or the "most efficient python coding contest" or whatever will fail
spectacularly?
Eugene
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