[Omaha.pm] Oldies but goodies!

[Jay Hannah]

Not to mention:

Programmer Adam Back managed to squeeze the RSA algorithm into just two
lines of Perl:
http://world.std.com/~franl/crypto/rsa-guts.html

:)

j
 

-----Original Message-----
From: Sean J. Edwards 
Sent: Friday, March 09, 2007 9:23 AM
Subject: Oldies but goodies!

Perl "Too Good"

> Originally posted on www.perl.org in 1997: 

> 
>                           Perl "Too Good"
> 
> 
> This is a true story. Names have not been changed.
> 
> UCLA's Computer Science Undergraduate Association regularly hosts its
> programming competition.  Contestants are given six complex problems
> and have three hours to write programs to solve as many of the
problems
> as possible. In 1997, the rules stated that any programming language
> could be used so long as you solved the problem, so then-undergraduate
> Keith Chiem entered and used Perl.
> 
> Keith did not merely win, he conquered. He solved five of the six
> problems in the three hours allotted.  The second-place two-person
> team solved only three problems. They, needless to say, were not using
> Perl.
> 
> But if you're a UCLA undergraduate contemplating entering the contest
> and using Perl, don't bother. After Keith's conquest, Perl was banned
> from the contest.
> 
> You've got to admire a language that is banned because it makes
> problems too easy to solve.
> 
> These days, Keith is reportedly a sysadmin at Yahoo! Inc., and is
> wondering what to do with the copy of Visual C++ that was his prize.

Decode DVD's with 7 lines of PERL (from 2001):
http://www.wired.com/news/culture/0,1284,42259,00.html