[oclug] Programming Wars - Final Results

Joe Burpee jeb at burkby.com
Sat Apr 14 09:08:32 EDT 2001


On Fri, Apr 13, 2001 at 07:06:28PM -0400, Vic Gedris wrote:
> The final results of the Programming Wars are now posted on the OCLUG
> website:
> 
> http://www.oclug.on.ca/pwars.php

Hey, nice stuff Vic.  Is this a hint of things to come on the warfront?  PHP vs mod_perl perhaps?

> Joe Burpee - Best Overall
> Mike Soulier - Fastest
> Dave O'Nell - Shortest (and most insane ;-)
> Tom Goulet - Most elegant

Best overalls, that's me; always was a natty dresser.  And talk about lucky; I was up against real expertise in all 3 categories, didn't win any, and I managed to come out best overall.  Obviously the credit goes to g++.

> Thanks again to everyone who participated by writing a program or just
> helping out.  We'll have to do this again sometime soon.

Many thanks to you and the sponsors.  A fun war.  Plus there's no need for further language debate.  We all know which language is best overall, right?  ;-)

Joe



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