Re: Help converting C to PHP

Hello all, > > I personally don't think this is a very healthy contest. It > > discourages comments, and use of whitespace to make code readable. > Anyway... as you say, it would be nice to have a contest that rewards > readability and maintainability... but, how can we messure that > qualities in this type of games? Should your code be praised by others > and voted on? Is that reliable? I think enforcing a coding style is > too restrictive... Also, how do we measure the declarativity of var > and function names? For some real trouble, try the International Obsfucated C Code Contest: http://www.ioccc.org/ These contests like Code Golf are just for fun, I can't say that they encourage bad practice as long as you understand what the contest is about. That aside, I think that it would be very beneficial to the community as a whole if a contest was started that encouraged readability and good practices. The scoring and judging could be done by a panel, but I think that it would be more fun if the community itself was able to vote on various attributes; readability, efficiency, general approach, originality, etc. Allow people to comment on each entry. I don't know about the winner getting anything besides bragging rights, but it if gets large enough maybe there can be a few corporate sponsors giving away licenses or something. Who knows? I think it would be a lot of fun if well executed. -K.Bear