Alex Wulms <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
* >> > Send your solution to : [EMAIL PROTECTED]
* >>
* >> And to the mailing list too please, because a lot of people can learn
* >> from your solution.
* That would not be fair. When you send your routine directly to the
mailing
* list, only people who read the mailing list each day make a chance to
win:
* there are only a few really fastest possibilities, so it might well be
possi
* ble
* that two different people come with the same solution.
You are right in principle. But from what I read about this discussion
until now, I think what people want is to discuss their
shortest/fastest routines on the mailinglist. This is for many people
the most 'fun'. Also, you are not stuck to a few categories, but the
list-readers will eventually see a lot of optimal routines for each
different situation. If somebody then just stores the right messages
from the mailinglist archives in one textfile, he's got a good text
about learning assembler and a nice math library as well! (Which has
to be put at ftp.funet.fi/pub/msx/asm/sources ofcourse :) So all the
mailers will be doing a good deed as well, by throwing their routines
into the Pulic Domain ;)
So, ehr, this is not meant as a general effort at Hulzink-bashing, but
maybe this is a better idea than a contest? Or as far as I am
concerned, he can just pick the winners from the mailing-archives, for
the most useful contributions, if he wants to.
My 2 cents worth,
Roderik.
