weekly programming contest

so i thought since /prog/ is filled right now with non programming related bullcrap. how about we discuss about a official weekly /prog/ programming contest. we could make one each week. we could discuss a debate on the subject 2 days before the assignment.

it would really increase quality posts and programming related subjects, and add some posts here because it seems a bit lame here. also the nonprograming related bullshit i think might exsist because of boredom and we all know how bad boredom is.

discuss. NOW!!!

>>20
Nobody is forcing you to use LOOP, however you're right, I find my Lisp code to be somewhat verbose, since I tend to give my symbols long descriptive names (which is not a problem as long as there's auto-complete), so I could read them at a later date without wondering what I meant. Of course, if you really use statements like that often, and dotimes isn't good enough, you could always write a macro which looks like (repeat 1000 (print "Sussman")) if you wanted (it would only take 2-3 lines of code tops at that). Does Java give you as many options to avoid verbosity if you so desire?