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:: To be honest, I think this is a very poor task as currently structured. It goes out of its way to make things difficult with those restrictions (e.g., causing problems in languages that unify lists and arrays) and all without the purpose of achieving something that maps to a real life goal. By contrast, being able to handle very large numbers of lines (e.g., 10 million) where they may be long and where there may be many maxima, that actually means something vaguely useful. (Except that hardly never is line length of real relevance; I've never seen it for real.) If you insist on having the restrictions, make them Extra Credit points only. –[[User:Dkf|Donal Fellows]] 00:00, 16 August 2011 (UTC)
::: I will respectfully disagree with some of your assertions. If every task on the site were purely utilitarian, we could cut out a fair percentage of tasks. Many also don't address real life goals. Anyone is free to write another task to handle millions of lines. Part of being a draft task is that things need working out. This task started with a straight copy and we are seeing if it can be adapted and generalized. Right now it's a bit of an experiment. I'm surprised that I've seen little in terms of positive suggestions about how to evolve this. Simply making it optional defeats the whole point. --[[User:Dgamey|Dgamey]] 02:38, 16 August 2011 (UTC)
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