[kw-pm] Perl puzzles and 20Q

Eric Maki eric at uc.org
Mon Jan 2 18:23:10 PST 2006


> When you cheat by looking it up in a reference book you
> learn something, with the program or device you learn
> nothing.

Ahhh... but when I cheat by -programming- I learn a lot.

If I sat at home filling out Sudoku by feeding it into the
computer, that would be pointless.  I still solve them with my
brain, but I actually figured out a lot about how to solve them
by programming something to do it for me.

And now you have spoiled five minutes or so of my talk.  You are
required to fill that five minutes.

Eric


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