🚀 go-pugleaf

On 15 Feb 1996 08:52:15 -0600, nmm1@cus.cam.ac.uk (Nick Maclaren)
wrote:

:In article <4fu7pp$94q@solutions.solon.com>, jeffno@denali.ccs.neu.edu (Jeffrey Nowakowski) writes:
:|> Norman Hamer <maven@mavenry.altcit.eskimo.com> writes:
:|> 
:|> >  Gotta say, amusing as the first-year-student-programming-style
:|> > contest is, I (for one) don't think this is a particularly
:|> > appropriate place for it.
:|> 
:|> Where else would you put it?
:|> 
:|> I think the bad examples are good for pointing out mistakes that
:|> beginners make.  They are clearly labeled as bad, so I don't see the
:|> problem.
:
:I think that this IS a reasonable place, but I should prefer that
:it were used for announcements of such contests, and the reporting
:of results (probably with selected code).  I.e. I should prefer
:that the 'entries' were submitted by Email, and not posted.
:
:Right, now we have three different opinions in three postings :-)
:
:
:Nick Maclaren,
:University of Cambridge Computer Laboratory,
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The C contests can be quite illuminating or quite confusing depending
upon the reader's experience. I think that the posts should illuminate
why the code is "evil" and that a "proper" version of the code should
be included.