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Link to Jan Dubois's solution (Score:1)
2008 Winter Scripting Games: Advanced Perl Event 3 Solution
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/scriptcenter/funzone/games/solutions08/experls
Re: (Score:2)
“Strange and alien” (Score:1)
My suspicion is that someone with a Lisp background would write much more idiomatic Perl than someone with a Java/C# background… and I think I can tell what programmer wrote the official solution.