Sridhar R wrote on Sun, Jan 25, 2004 at 10:49:05PM -0800:
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| > I don't think RMS or Knuth has participated and won any great great
| > contests.
|
| Then I don't think we doesn't need to participate in such contests
| then.
|
| Programming contests doesn't mean fighting. Open you eyes to see
| that a _team_ (3 students in this case) works for solving problems,
| not an individual. This _definitely_ help people to work in
| Collaborative projects.
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amen. This argument against contests is as good as saying quiz
contests are wrong.
Its time for this branch of the thread to die. Let me take the honour
of killing it... ;)
cheers,
-Suraj
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