[perl4ever]

I entered a programming contest once, where the task was to take some input and construct an optimal solution to a geometric problem. I got irritated at the rules not being clear and well thought out, and I wasn't smart enough to work out a good implementation of the real-world algorithm they were hoping contestants would come up with. So I wrote code to provide pretty much the stupidest (most trivial) possible solution that fulfilled the specific constraints for a valid output that were stated. Because entrants were scored on a combination of speed, code size, and quality, my entry came in a close second, because it was by far the smallest and fastest. I kicked myself for not trying harder to optimize the quality even a little bit above "braindead".