[Tutor] Converting problem sets from other languages into Python?

Tesla Coil tescoil@irtc.net
Wed, 06 Jun 2001 11:04:45 -0500


On 6 June 2001, Rob Andrews wrote:
> While we're kinda on the subject, I'll go ahead
> and leak an up-coming feature for Useless. (First
> I need to finish the program that will automatically
> generate the HTML pages, but I'm mostly there.)
>
> Once it's begun, for each script someone contributes
> to Useless, the contributor will be able to add an
> icon to a script by someone else, indicating one of
> several things ("I actually used this", "I learned
> something from this", "This is indeed Useless", etc.).

Should have voting review skill and style rather 
than utility, e.g, Elegant, Genius from Mars,
Runs with Square Wheels, Just When You Thought
Obfuscated Python Didn't Exist, etc.  This sort
of commentary can be made regardless of what a
program proposes to do.  And, however one rates
the utility of working code to solve the Knight's
Tour puzzle (I, for one, am not too sure), the
question is probably of less consequence to the
programmer's next effort than what could be said
of how well it was implemented.