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Article #2060Re: Evil C Contests
From: Ted Timmons
Date: Sat, 17 Feb 1996 18:08
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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