Austin Ziegler wrote:
> On 9/26/05, Isaac Gouy <igouy / yahoo.com> wrote:
> > > Will you complain now or change the Ruby script to use this
> > > functionality, that allows the program to run?
> > Here's how to contribute your program
> > http://shootout.alioth.debian.org/faq.php?sort=fullcpu#contribute
>
> Obviously, you didn't even read the program to see that it was an
> utter cheat to exec the program. The right solution -- as always --
> for you to fix your damned run script. Fix that and you'll get results
> for the Ruby program AS IT STANDS.
>
> Don't fix it, and my assessment of the lack of honesty surrounding the
> Bogus Computer Language Shootout stands.
>
> -austin
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> Austin Ziegler * halostatue / gmail.com
>                * Alternate: austin / halostatue.ca

I implicitly trust Ruby programmers - it's simply unthinkable that any
of them would contribute a program which intentionally cheated. (And it
would give the Perl guys something to complain about.)