From: Johnny Morrice <spoon@...>
Date: 2011-01-11T04:46:48+09:00
Subject: Re: Programming exercises

On Tue, 11 Jan 2011 01:58:59 +0900
"Jonas Pfenniger (zimbatm)" <jonas@pfenniger.name> wrote:

> 2011/1/10 Johnny Morrice <spoon@killersmurf.com>:
> > I found some of the problems on http://projecteuler.net/
> > interesting, some are very challenging.
> 
> Me too, but in reality, I never need those kind of algorithms, because
> I use ruby to mash things together.
>

Indeed!  That is a worthy disclaimer.  The solutions to
those problems are not useful.

However, they are good practice at writing difficult programs - to
grow, the mind needs stretched by increasingly harder tasks.