From: James Edward Gray II <james@...>
Date: 2007-11-10T09:06:04+09:00
Subject: Re: Current Quizmaster Retiring

On Nov 9, 2007, at 5:14 PM, Michal Suchanek wrote:

> Hmm, maybe I am not really a programmer. I can appreciate elegant code
> (for my subjective definition of elegant) but I rarely struggle to
> perfect my (or somebody else's) code in my free time. For the three
> long years I have been aware there's a quiz running. Sure I have
> looked at some quizzes that seemed particularly interesting, but I
> haven't contributed a single solution.

This is off-topic and I'm obviously biased, but I really believe  
anyone who has never tried a programming challenge should.  You don't  
really think all those Ruby Quiz solutions are built because we like  
extra work, do you?  You might be surprised to find that it can be  
quite fun.

> I wonder why we have so many galleries with paintings and sculptures
> but I haven't heard of one displaying exceptional pieces of code.

http://pragdave.blogs.pragprog.com/pragdave/2007/10/art-in- 
programm.html#comments

James Edward Gray II