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in thread Competition fuels obsession over Perl
I think you're right about Pascal though. It was Pascal, not Fortran. I had learned Pascal as my first non-BASIC language, though there is no real point of using a language that dogmatic without any decent library functions! Today remember "use crt;" and that's about all the Pascal I know at this point.
The terminal access aspect really stunk. The way our teams were parititioned, I ended up drawing on the whiteboards more than anything, but we suffered at the terminal because other folks could not translate my ideas into code well. So, yes, there was a huge social/time-management aspect to it as well. It's hard working with people that don't work well with you ... a good life lesson, I suppose, if you are into that. (I'm not!)
I kind of liked the impartial rejection messages though. "WRONG!" was all you ever got back from the judges ...
While I agree "using tools that solved the problems already is kind of pointless", I don't see anythign wrong with attacking algorithmic problems with say, just the standard Perl installation (no CPAN).
Though I wasn't ever involved, I particularly liked the race car problem at the ICFP: here. ... language essentially doesn't matter in the contest, thought does.
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Re: Competition fuels obsession over Perl
by Abigail-II (Bishop) on Feb 19, 2004 at 16:24 UTC | |
by flyingmoose (Priest) on Feb 19, 2004 at 18:34 UTC |