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.
