Re: Perl barred from a programming contest

Olivier Nicole wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I remember I once read a story aboput Perl being forbiden in a
> programmin contest, because it was too easy to use (like the previous
> year, the winner used Perl and only half of the allocatedtime to write
> a working solution).
> 
> I have been looking for references to that event, but could not find
> it out, any help is welcome.

It was at a UCLA contest in 1997. The obvious search lists plenty of hits:

  <http://www.google.com/search?q=perl%20banned%20contest>

Randy.