From: John Carter Date: 2001-08-06T10:04:55+09:00 Subject: [ruby-talk:19184] Re: ANN: Code Amelioration Contest (presented by Ruby Conference 2001) On Fri, 3 Aug 2001, David Alan Black wrote: > --------------------------------- > CODE AMELIORATION CONTEST >snip< > As a first, non-competitive step, there will be a submission > period for examples of "bad" code. These examples will then be > publicly posted for downloading and rewriting -- amelioration -- > by contestants. This post crashed in my mind into this one.... > From: Guillaume Cottenceau > Subject: [ruby-talk:19173] ANN: PLEAC - Programming Language Examples > Alike Cookbook > > I'd like to announce a (rather) new programming languages project I'm > maintaining, which is called PLEAC and is located here: > > http://pleac.sourceforge.net/ > > Basically, the aim is to rewrite Perl CookBook's code in other > programming languages, to: I'm not in any way accusing Guillaume of having code that needs ameliorating... I just think Guillaume's work combined with the contest would provide a good basis for Ruby advocacy. John Carter Phone : (64)(3) 358 6639 Tait Electronics Fax : (64)(3) 359 4632 PO Box 1645 Christchurch Email : john.carter@tait.co.nz New Zealand I'm becoming less and less convinced of humans as rational beings. I suspect we are merely meme collectors, and the reason meme is only kept on to help count our change.