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in thread Perl on Topcoder

using regexes is IMHO cheating when it comes to showing how much brain power you have :) They are too convenient and a huge shortcut in many cases.

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Re^4: Perl on Topcoder
by itub (Priest) on Sep 13, 2005 at 17:58 UTC
    The same can be said about computers.
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Re^4: Perl on Topcoder
by fbinard (Beadle) on Sep 15, 2005 at 02:38 UTC
    Perhaps then the solution is to have a competition just in Perl ;)
    Franck Binard
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      Perl golf kind of satisfies this role for the perl community.

      In a typically laid-back anarchistic sort of way :)

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