Hi Jenda, On Wednesday 20 Apr 2011 10:21:40 Jenda Krynicky wrote: > From: Peter Scott <pe...@psdt.com> > > > On Tue, 19 Apr 2011 16:29:16 -0700, ai nguyen wrote: > > > A population of 20 cows, each one has age and weight (known). Device > > > this population into 2 group, each group has 10 cows. > > > > > > Questions: > > > How to pick a cow on each group so that a distribution of AGE and > > > WEIGHT on each group is similar. Show your strategy or/and implement > > > it in PERL. > > > > Is this a question on a quiz or test you're taking? Do the people giving > > the test have the expectation that your answer is a measure of your > > abilities or those of people you've asked for help? > > > > How far have you gotten with a solution? > > > > Or if you're just posing a question as a challenge for people to exercise > > their brains, this would be better off in the Perl Quiz-of-the-Week list > > (which hasn't seen any traffic in aeons). > > Hey, dude! Beware of Fish! This was rude! You did not greet the nice > person, you did not compliment his ability to copy&paste his homework > and you did not spoon-feed him. This way we'll scare off the > beginners and we do not want to do that, right? Even if the beginners > are lazy cheaters that believe their professor is not clever enough > to check the archives and see who cheated.
Just for the record, I did not find his response rude. He was asking several questions and I don't expect people to spoon feed people with solutions to their off-the-wall homework problems. Most of the people here don't know how to solve this problem, whether in Perl, or in any other programming language, and we should tell people they should show some initial effort to learn Perl and show us the code they have so far. Peter's E-mail could have been a bit better, but overall it was OK. Just for the record, you may wish to refer to me as "Mr. Fish" or "Shlomi" or "Shlomi Fish" or whatever due to the multi-ambiguity of my last name: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fish_%28disambiguation%29 Regards, Shlomi Fish -- ----------------------------------------------------------------- Shlomi Fish http://www.shlomifish.org/ Original Riddles - http://www.shlomifish.org/puzzles/ There's no point in keeping an idea to yourself since there's a 10 to 1 chance that somebody already has it and will share it before you. Please reply to list if it's a mailing list post - http://shlom.in/reply . -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: beginners-unsubscr...@perl.org For additional commands, e-mail: beginners-h...@perl.org http://learn.perl.org/
