Comment by teddyh

16 hours ago
  From:  hermann@cpsc.ucalgary.ca (Michael Hermann)
  Subject:  Programmming awards
  Date:  10 Feb 89
  
  At Calgary, the computer science department has an award called
  the Williams Cup (as in old stained coffee cup), which is given
  yearly to the student who hands in the most imaginative
  rendition of a regular programming assignment.  Anyway, as the
  story goes, the cup was awarded to a student who'd done a desk
  calculator assignment.  Seems that the prof hadn't specified
  that you had to do it in decimal, so his/her program did math
  with _roman_numerals_.
  
  The clincher for the award must have been his/her programming
  style, since of course, the documentation was in _latin_.