[Chicago] Can you write Perl in Python?

Brant Harris deadwisdom at gmail.com
Wed Dec 28 22:22:35 CET 2005


Hah, I see "Peter Norvig" got his in at 189

And I've posted mine at 193.  Because posting it will mean that I
spend no more time on it.

On 12/28/05, Martin Maney <maney at two14.net> wrote:
> On Wed, Dec 28, 2005 at 12:54:24PM -0600, Ian Bicking wrote:
> > And while they *say* they count characters, not bytes, are they telling
> > the truth?
>
> Wussisname that's running this has said he's counting characters in the
> sense of "wc -c", so it's actually physical bytes that are counted.
>
> Several people have matched the 120 byte working example; perhaps that
> will prove to be the limit?
>
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