Re: Possible Ideas for Presentation

Nathan Torkington wrote:
> 
> Oh man, I have started a monster!  For the sake of historical
> accuracy, the full truth (discovered by someone else after I wrote the
> story up) is that Perl wasn't actually supposed to have been allowed
> in the first place.  The competition was preparation for the ACM,
> which doesn't permit Perl, so instead of Perl being banned the
> following year, the rules were merely more accurately stated.

Well then, why is Perl banned in the ACM competition?
Is it not because Perl is "Too Good"?

-- 
John Porter

"There are people who have fun studying the C++ spec for
literally seconds on end, I'm sure..."    John Vlissides