Code Golf Challenge : 1,000 Digits Of Pi

[Paul McGuire]

<bearophileHUGS at lycos.com> wrote in message 
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> Paddy:
>> Is having good 'code-fu' worthwhile? It may be trivial to score but do
>> the results show who iss the better programmer?
>
> With Python you can't win, because Perl and Ruby allow for shorter
> programs.
> Beside the language, you win if you can invent more tricks, that you
> have to avoid in real code, because it must be very readable.
> The positive side of this game is that you exercise yourself, so you
> get to know the programming language better, and you learn all the
> corner cases of your language. Knowing them is useful, to avoid them
> when you program for real, to avoid some kind of bugs generated by
> corner cases.
>
> Bye,
> bearophile
>

Success lies in the journey, not the destination.

or in Yoda-speak:

In the journey success lies, in the destination not.

-- Paul