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- From: paulp@nic.cerf.net (Paul Phillips)
- Newsgroups: comp.infosystems.www.misc,comp.lang.misc,comp.lang.perl.misc,comp.lang.c
- Subject: Re: Perl vs. C (was Re: Unix or NT? Get a Mac!)
- Date: 4 Jan 1996 17:04:05 GMT
- Organization: http://www.primus.com/staff/paulp/useless.html
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- References: <4cgfp9$pje@hecate.umd.edu>
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- In article <4cgfp9$pje@hecate.umd.edu> me@ram.org writes:
- >>All this is fine if you can type as fast as you think. Most people are
- >>not ACM contest programmers.
- >
- >Well, if you read Paul Phillps' post (and actually everone who
- >disagreed with me then), that's how this whole thing started. I'm
- >sure there're ACM problems that Perl might do better (but I can't
- >think of one---anyone?)
-
- ANY from the last regional competition. You are arguing something
- so bizarre that I cannot participate; it's like trying to argue with
- a Jesus freak. It came up when discussing the rules, someone asked
- if he could use Perl, AND EVERYBODY LAUGHED. BECAUSE IT WAS FUNNY.
-
- They give six problems and five hours -- and nobody has ever finished
- all six problems (at least that's what we were told, and nobody did at
- ours either.) It would be trivial for even a modestly accomplished Perl
- programmer to finish them all in that time span (and no, I won't test
- for your benefit. Believe it or don't.)
-
- You contrived an extremely short almost wholly algorithmic problem as
- a comparison -- means nothing. Dig up the regional problems if they're
- available and post them. And I don't want to hear that you solved them
- in C in five minutes each.
-
- -PSP
-
-
- --
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