Here's a game based on Jerry Pournelle's column: When a new issue of BYTE arrives at the office, volunteers each take a turn to find the first instance of alas. (As in, "Alas, the computer didn't work.") The player with the shortest time wins and gets priority to the office's lone copy.
Bill Clark
Sheboygan, WI
Flexible C++
Matthew Wilson
My approach to software engineering is far more pragmatic than it
is
theoretical--and no language better exemplifies this than C++.
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