by ml-perl@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
(Randy W. Sims)
Nov 22, 2006 at 07:02 AM
Olivier Nicole wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I remember I once read a story aboput Perl being forbiden in a
> programmin contest, because it was too easy to use (like the previous
> year, the winner used Perl and only half of the allocatedtime to write
> a working solution).
>
> I have been looking for references to that event, but could not find
> it out, any help is welcome.
It was at a UCLA contest in 1997. The obvious search lists plenty of hits:
<http://www.google.com/search?q=perl%20banned%20contest>
Randy.
