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Not a big Perl fan but...
I'm not a big Perl fan, but languages are always worth learning, if only to open your mind to interesting approaches.

There does seem the a kind of feature wars going on with languages at the moment, where once quite simple and focused languages are incorporating ideas from other places, but becoming increasing complex. I have mixed feelings about that. (Except Java, which has ground to a halt!)

As for choice of language for the competition - should they really care? It's the *algorithm* they want, and they can re-code the thing anyway they like.

Anyway Murph, I think you should do a competition, something deeply irrelevant but fun (like your blog ;-)), with awards going to the most appropriately unconventional.
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Not a big Perl fan but...  TheTruthisOutThere@... | 12/23/08
PAPPL Alert!  Roger Ramjet | 12/23/08
RE: Relearning something about perl  V@... | 12/23/08
Ever heard of Perl Golf?  Roger Ramjet | 12/23/08
Well that reminds me of  V@... | 12/23/08
Not a criticism  Anton Philidor | 12/23/08
Yep, the language should be way down the list.  DevGuy_z | 12/23/08
May I suggest ...  Anton Philidor | 12/23/08
Oooo how very elegant!  Roger Ramjet | 12/23/08
Where to start?  Anton Philidor | 12/24/08
Define "solution"  Erik Engbrecht | 12/23/08
Defining "solve"  Anton Philidor | 12/24/08
Agreed -except, well, not really  murph_z ZDNet Moderator | 12/24/08
So you know "all probable solutions"...  Anton Philidor | 12/24/08
You need the program in order to find the algorithm  LouS | 12/24/08
What is needed? Performance or expressiveness?  DevGuy_z | 12/23/08
Good reply. I agree. nt  T1Oracle | 12/23/08
Re: Letting the compiler find the bugs  V@... | 12/23/08
Language not important? Try Roman numerals  buzzl | 12/23/08
Oddly enough  murph_z ZDNet Moderator | 12/24/08
No, do what I mean requires too much knowledge  LouS | 12/24/08
Write only languages are gone  LBiege | 12/23/08
BS!  Erik Engbrecht | 12/23/08
Your inability to read my APL isn't my problem...  Henry Miller | 12/23/08

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