If you've got a more compelling or interesting idea; please feel free to post it.
In light of some recent threads; it's nice to see someone respond proactively and with generosity.
Personally, I plan to work on this as an exercise, just to see what I learn and to see how close I come to the selected entry.
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OK, I take you point. I'd be happy to submit a challenge and
take the time to judge others, if required. However, being so
new the the Monks, I needs to ask one question:
What motivates you?
Specifically in a competition context. footpad has
mentioned that he would simply complete the competition
in order to see what he could learn. A very noble cause,
indeed. However, I rather suspect some of the Monks may
have a more competitive streak.
So, let me know what you want and I'll see what I can do.
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Brother Marvell
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My motivation for taking part in this contest (or at least, having written something that vaguely fulfills the
requirements although I won't be sending it in due to lack of time) is the plain fun. I know how to use the modules from CPAN (LWP and Date::Manip in my case), and I know how to download something programmatically from the web, so I left these parts out as trivial. This contest gave me a nice challenge to think about a good control flow for such a program,
together with a closely defined boundary. Playing with regular expressions and somemwhat striving for elegance,
this was more like a scribbling and/or sketching session to me than the attempt to deliver a painting (and I don't think my scribbling is worth finnishing up and sending it in).
As I am too lazy to compete now (or afraid to show my
inability), this contest has brought me some time of
goal-oriented pondering much like other brain-teasers or searches for algorithms do as well - I find such things
relaxing and entertaining.
Another thing contributing to my lazyness was the
factor that the contest will be/will have been decided by the ability to time a mail transfer to jcwren such that the mail arrives/is sent at 00:00h EST. On the other side, the obvious problem (as discussed above by AgentM) is
the problem of ranking, and time of arrival is one good method to judge.
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I am gonna have a bash an after that who knows I may well follow the example and set a challenge of my very own.
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Zigster
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Perhaps this could be part of the prize - setting the next
challenge - surely no mean feat in itself if it's going to
be interesting enough to entice others to have a go.
Pete
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