Re: $100.00 Programming Contest
I'm curious how the "goodness" of a particular solution will be evaluated.
Once strings are parsed into tokens (fairly trivial), there are a number of
different approaches you could take, all of which are legitimate.
Assuming that a dozen people submit a "winning" program, what criteria do you
then use? Points for clever recursion, less lines of code, speed, or being
the closest to the solution that Robert's written? 
One other thing - just because a sentance can be decrypted into legal words
doesn't guarantee that it's correct. For example, 'j' and 'v' are fairly
uncommon. So if the word was "jibe" and we translated it "vibe", is it still
a good solution (assuming all the other words were 'translated' as well)?
-- David Cuny
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