[robin@rszemeti.demon.co.uk: Perl advocacy opportunity ...]

[Chris Benson]

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From: robin szemeti <robin at rszemeti.demon.co.uk>
Date: Sun, 1 Dec 2002 10:42:54 +0000
To: london.pm at london.pm.org
Subject: Perl advocacy opportunity ...

hmmm ...

http://www.news.jobserve.com/NewsStory.asp?SID=SID1259

Precis: the British Computer Society (http://www.bcs.org) run a programming 
competition every year (solve as many problems as possible in a given time) 
.. the languages on offer are C, C++ Java ... and new this year .. Visual 
Basic .. they hope to include C# next year :(

So ...  probably a bit of a non starter this year, how about we do the 
advocacy thing, try and first get Perl included, and then win the thing?

Getting Perl onto the list would be the first challenge, but surely not that 
hard.  Perhaps even if we could just get a place in one of the regional heats 
as a 'demonstration sport' sort of thing .... whupping the competition (and 
you know we can ) would be a feather in our caps.

Sadly, their site is down right now so I can't see the precise rules ...  
AFAICT its a 'real life' thing where you actually have to turn up and do 
stuff so would involve coming into the outside world, probably whilst the 
daystar is shining brightly too ... but .. it could be worth it :) .. 
certainly raising the profile of Perl would be worthwhile, winning the 
competition wouldn't do your job prospects any harm either.

Thoughts ... ?

-- 
Robin Szemeti


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Chris Benson