“Lots of people won lots of things at Perl Conference 3.0, and I
am not talking about swag, like the cool knives given out by
Sendmail, Inc., the excellent yo-yos from amazon.com, or the Mr.
Bunny’s Internet Startup Games from Borders. No, these prizes
actually required skill of some sort.”
“First was the Perl Bowl: Programmer Death Match, hosted by Ben
Holzman. After qualifying, semifinals, and the finals (plus some,
er, technical difficulties along the way), Jason Kruger was crowned
the winner, and granted a 400MHz Celeron computer (6.4GB, 64MB,
etc.) with monitor by VA Linux Systems for his efforts. VA Linux’s
Chris DiBona said they would offer the same prize for next year’s
contest.”
“The following day, Jon Orwant hosted the second annual Perl
Quiz Show. This time, the grand prizes (lots of stuff donated by
lots of groups, including the standard O’Reilly fare and half off
stateroom accomodations on the Perl Whirl) were taken by London
Perl Mongers Andy Wardley, Peter Haworth, Richard Clamp, and Nick
Ing-Simmons.”