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Date:Mon Jan 8 22:18:05 2003 
Subject:Forwarded: Re: Silly Pop-11 Programming Challenge 2003 
From:A . Sloman 
Volume-ID:1030108.02 

Non-member submission from [David Young <davidy@cogs.susx.ac.uk>]

> On Thu, 2 Jan 2003 16:25:38 +0000 (UTC), steve@watchfield.com wrote:
> >       --- Steve's Very Silly Pop-11 Programming Challenge 2003 ---
> >
> >Implement a PERMUTATION REPEATER. ...
 
> >Points will be awarded by me for
> >      ...
> >     3.  Efficiency - in both time and space.

Jon commented:

> From: netspam@softluck.plus.com (Jonathan L Cunningham)
> Use jlc instead of netspam to e-mail me, please.
>
> I think 3 should be split into 3a time and 3b space - we are not all
> Einsteins, you know!

Yes, but Einstein pointed out that space and time are the same thing,
just from different viewpoints. So my solution (available free from
http://www.cogs.susx.ac.uk/users/davidy/poplog/ ) now allows you to
trade off one against the other. Not that it necessarily does very well
on either, you understand.

David