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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