in reply to Contest Ideas Quest

What is the contest?
Longest "Hello World" Program; whoever can create the longest, bug-free script to print "Hello World" ten times and exit is the winner.

How will entries be submitted?
All code must be posted for peer review as a reply to the contest node. ONLY contest submissions will be allowed as first level-replies.

How will the entries be scored?
1 point for every line of executable code. Comments and whitespace won't help you! +10 bonus points for style (formatting of code/output, interesting routines, etc.)

How will the entries be scored?
Code length, of course. "Style" bonus points determined by peer review, based on either Rep. or replies.

Who will score the entries?
The community, or one individual selected by vroom.

When/will submissions be viewable by everyone?
Of course, the submissions will be viewable from start to finish.

- Ozymandias

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RE: RE: Contest Ideas Quest
by ivory (Pilgrim) on Jun 06, 2000 at 06:54 UTC
    Maybe I am missing something, but it seems to me that one could submit any long perl script, provided that it also printed Hello World a few times... I think there need to be more rules...I mean, you could write a million line program that had one variable that you manually added 1 (one) to at each line, then printed "hello world". Seems weird. --Ivory
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      Mmmm. Good point. Perhaps it should be something like "each line must do something towards the goal of printing the output; but that would get really difficult. Scoring would have to become a matter of popular vote, and that has too much chance of simply becoming a popularity contest.

      The reason I like the idea of a "longest script" contest is that it's a challenge. We're all very used to squeezing code down to the minimum; it shows in our penchant for one-liners, our preference for haiku. Every contest I see, one of the criteria is "shortest code" or "most elegent code" - which amounts to the same thing.

      That's normally a good thing. It helps us write better code. I just thought that, for once, vying to create the LONGEST script would be a good change of pace.

      - Ozymandias

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        Man....I just talked myself out of 10,000,000 XP didn't I? :(
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(zdog) RE: (2) Contest Ideas Quest
by zdog (Priest) on Jun 06, 2000 at 07:32 UTC
    Ya, I agree with ivory. The truly good Perl programmers work to make their code as short, as readable, and as fast as possible. This idea of the longest Perl program to print Hello World needs to be edited a bit.

    -- zdog (Zenon Zabinski)
       Go Bells!!

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