On 2006-09-18, Calvin Spealman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Just once, I would like to see a programming contest that was
> judged on the quality of your code, not the number of bytes you
> managed to incomprehensively hack it down to.
Check out the ICFP Functional Programming Contest. Most of the
On 18 Sep 2006 16:33:20 -0700, George Sakkis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Calvin Spealman wrote:
>
> > Just once, I would like to see a programming contest that was judged
> > on the quality of your code, not the number of bytes you managed to
> > incomprehensively hack it down to.
>
> Unfortunatel
Calvin Spealman wrote:
> Just once, I would like to see a programming contest that was judged
> on the quality of your code, not the number of bytes you managed to
> incomprehensively hack it down to.
Unfortunately, quality is not as easy to judge as number of bytes. Such
contest would be as craz
On 9/18/06, Carl Drinkwater <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> Code Golf's 12th challenge has just been added to the site. It asks you
> to calculate the first 1,000 digits of Pi - Something I'm sure most of
> you have thought about, but never done. You can see the challenge at :
>
>htt
Paul Rubin wrote:
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
> > With Python you can't win, because Perl and Ruby allow for shorter
> > programs.
>
> Python has native bignums, which should simplify a program like this
> enormously. I don't know if Ruby has them. Perl doesn't, and if you
> use some CPAN librar
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
> With Python you can't win, because Perl and Ruby allow for shorter
> programs.
Python has native bignums, which should simplify a program like this
enormously. I don't know if Ruby has them. Perl doesn't, and if you
use some CPAN library that simulates them, that shou
Paul McGuire wrote:
> Success lies in the journey, not the destination.
>
> or in Yoda-speak:
>
> In the journey success lies, in the destination not.
>
> -- Paul
Ah, I always wondered what lemmings thought , before splat!!! :-)
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> Paddy:
>> Is having good 'code-fu' worthwhile? It may be trivial to score but do
>> the results show who iss the better programmer?
>
> With Python you can't win, because Perl and Ruby allow for shorter
> programs.
> Beside the language
Paddy:
> Is having good 'code-fu' worthwhile? It may be trivial to score but do
> the results show who iss the better programmer?
With Python you can't win, because Perl and Ruby allow for shorter
programs.
Beside the language, you win if you can invent more tricks, that you
have to avoid in real
Carl Drinkwater wrote:
> For those who haven't heard of codegolf.com, it can be described as
> "allowing you to show off your code-fu by trying to solve coding
> problems using the least number of keystrokes."
Is having good 'code-fu' worthwhile? It may be trivial to score but do
the results show
Carl Drinkwater wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> Code Golf's 12th challenge has just been added to the site. It asks you
> to calculate the first 1,000 digits of Pi - Something I'm sure most of
> you have thought about, but never done. You can see the challenge at :
>
>http://codegolf.com/1000-digits-of
Hi all,
Code Golf's 12th challenge has just been added to the site. It asks you
to calculate the first 1,000 digits of Pi - Something I'm sure most of
you have thought about, but never done. You can see the challenge at :
http://codegolf.com/1000-digits-of-pi
For those who haven't heard o
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