Roger wrote:
> Or just post "interesting" solutions to problems.

The point is, in a contest, one wants to have an unambigous winner.  When a 
question is not explicitly a contest, individual taste will suffice, but a 
contest should declare a winner, and it needs a metric to determine one.

If the metric is subverted, the next contest will tighten the rules.  Which, in 
this case, will have a useful outcome:  a comprehensive list of everything that 
can make a J script non-deterministic.   It's a goal unto itself.

'Sides, I'd be more impressed with someone who could make an arbitrary J 
sentence execute using a constant number of tokens (without resorting to ". : 
or !:) than a person who could generate a Sierpinski triangle in 5 characters 
less.

-Dan
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