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Re: Evil C Contests

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From: Ted Timmons
Date: Sat, 17 Feb 1996 18:08
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Jeffrey Nowakowski (jeffno@denali.ccs.neu.edu) wrote:
: 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.

: > I mean, c'mon, this is in _theory_ a
: > forum for exercising our collective knowledge of the C
: > language. While this contest, as well as the IOCCC do that, they
: > also provide a wealth of truly bad examples for the beginner.

: 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.

But why don't we do something _productive_?

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