Maul the Jester Coding Competition Announced

PORCUPINE PLAIN, Saskatchewan -- After a considerable hiatus, the amateur comic known as the Jester has raised its unsightly head once more and emerged from the proverbial woodwork.

Speaking to reporters this morning, Kahuna announced that the Jester should be mauled swiftly and with style^[1]. He said that a Maul the Jester Coding Competition has been mooted to determine creative and unusual means of achieving this most noble end. There are no limitations on languages and the use of elephants, Nile crocodiles and other legitimate fauna is permitted.

Welcoming the move, Bugware Evangelist Darth Gordon said he would propose an object-oriented approach to the problem, liberally mixed with structured query language, but bordering on voodoo.

Kahuna presented the following generic high-level language code as an example solution to the Jester problem:

EXTERNAL Code_of_Hammurabi, Jester, Elephants,
 Bananas;

SUSPEND Code_of_Hammurabi;
SUMMON Elephants;
BRIEF Elephants;
MAUL Jester USING Elephants;
DEBRIEF Elephants;
REWARD Elephants WITH Bananas;
DISPERSE Elephants;
ENABLE Code_of_Hammurabi;

Kahuna cautioned that the code was not meant to be complete and provided purely to illustrate a solution involving elephants. He added that executing the code in its present form might result in a stampede.

Concluding His press conference, Kahuna invited solutions to the Jester problem. These He said should be blogged or left as comments for review by the evaluation committee.

Darth Teddy, a known Jester antagonist was not available for comment.

^[1] Allusions to Monsieur Alphonse the undertaker are intentional.