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in reply to Perl challenges?

I myself participate in the ACM ICPC contests and they're a great way to get coding experience under pressure, as well as work with some upperclassmen and pick up skills from them. A lot of what you need to know are algorithms and data structures associated with those algorithms. Perl seems to be a good language for working with very abstract structures. Yay for references.