[Shootout-list] External libraries and Fannkuch.pl

[Robert Seeger]

It would seem to me that it wouldn't be, since it is an external
library. Admittedly, though, if something from CPAN is written in pure
perl, it would be acceptable to include the code for the module in
your submission (assuming the license would allow such?). I know that
isn't the case with this particular one, but I thought it worth
mentioning, in case anyone else wants to comment on that thought.

Rob Seeger


On Fri, 25 Mar 2005 18:13:57 -0800, Joel Hoffman <hoffmanj@pacifier.com> wrote:
> Attached is a Perl Fannkuch program (using the official algorithm as
> described) which uses Algorithm::FastPermute from CPAN. It is actually
> not particularly fast, but at least I think it is easy to read!
> 
> I read Brent Fulgham's post about external libraries, but it's not clear
> how repositories like CPAN are affected. It's really very normal (or at
> least it should be) to use random modules from CPAN in everyday Perl
> programming, but they aren't part of the core language. Some are pure
> Perl and some (like this one) are implemented in C. I haven't seen
> anything else using CPAN libraries, though, so is this acceptable?
> 
> Joel
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