<p>I agree, but I use it only because it is the second Euler Project problem -- I'm doing them in order and feel it would be remiss to skip one. They've been implemented in dozens of other languages and so provide a good reference point for users familiar with other languages.</p>
<p><blockquote type="cite">On Mar 27, 2011 11:49 AM, "Michael Richter" <<a href="mailto:ttmrichter@gmail.com">ttmrichter@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br><br><div class="gmail_quote"><p><font color="#500050">On 27 March 2011 11:27, Chris King <<a href="mailto:colanderman@gmail.com">colanderman@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
><br>> I've started a blog with the u...</font></p><div>I welcome anything that will help Mercury be more accessible to new users. I have but one request: can you please not resort to the omnipresent Fibonacci Sequence that seems to permeate each and every tutorial investigation of functional and/or logical languages? It seems to be the "Hello, world" of the functional/logical crowd and is becoming a bit of a cliché.</div>
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--Sergey Brin, demonstrating the emptiness of the "don't be evil" mantra.<br>
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