From: Isaac Gouy <igouy@...>
Date: 2006-08-11T04:10:15+09:00
Subject: Re: Been there, done that - language shootout


ara.t.how...@noaa.gov wrote:
> On Fri, 11 Aug 2006, Isaac Gouy wrote:
>
> > In contrast, it isn't surprising that programmers try to miss out parts of a
> > computation - it's what we do. The most unnatural thing about writing a
> > program for the Computer Language Shootout is having to write a program
> > constrained to an arbitrary distance and arbitrary route - there's some
> > latitude but not as much as we're accustomed to.
>
> then it is a brick moving contest - the kind i'm happy to lose ;-)
>
> -a
> --
> to foster inner awareness, introspection, and reasoning is more efficient than
> meditation and prayer.
> - h.h. the 14th dali lama

Google "brick moving contest" didn't find anything.