As I said yesterday: Or just post "interesting" solutions to problems. Forum readers can decide for themselves which are the interesting attributes.
- number of characters - number of tokens - time - space - innovative use of the language - elegance - etc. That is, the "rules" as they have been all along. ----- Original Message ----- From: greg heil <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Thursday, August 31, 2006 9:29 am Subject: Re: [Jprogramming] Re: Sierpinski triangle > On 8/31/06, Roger Hui <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > However, comb takes time and space linear in the size of the > result whereas comb1 takes exponential. Yet comb1 would have been > preferred according to the "number of characters" criterion. > > Switching to a words criteria would not affect that. Any one > dimensional valuation will have the same kind of deficits. ... unless > there is a robust "market" of intelligent "bidders" which backs a > "price" valuation. Even so some "bidders" will have variations in > "preferences". And most "markets" have "externalities" which are not > fully "costed". > > A measure based on actual storage costs and easily evaluated has some > constancy which supports a broad valuation of solution classes. In a > sense the character metric is one of the broadest and most convenient. > Metrics based on performance are either inexact (eg big O) or have > constricting architectural assumptions (counting assembly language > ops), and can be hard to evaluate. Characters are simple and broadly > understood. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm
