Re: Solutions and Discussion for Perl Quiz of the Week #23

On Fri, Sep 10, 2004 at 04:49:18PM +0100, Matthew Walton wrote:
> John J. Trammell wrote:
> 
> >The results for the non-Perl code are:
> >
> >  dalke.py                skip
> >  keeler3.c               B N L U
> >  walton1.lhs             skip
> >  zsban.rb                B N L U
> 
> Hopefully mine was skipped because the testers didn't have a Haskell 
> compiler handy (admittedly it's not exactly a standard thing to have 
> hanging around), because it was *supposed* to follow the specified 
> invocation format and output.

Well, no, I have a Haskell compiler (thanks, Debian!) but I couldn't get
your code to run.  Besides, I had 50+ other submissions to worry about.

I think it would be a good idea for folks that send in non-Perl
solutions (or even nonstandard Perl solutions) to include instructions
on how to run their code.

> Thanks for the excellent summary. This was a fun quiz to do and
> discuss.

Thanks for participating.  It was a lot of fun, and very inspiring.