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* I've found the ability to look at how problems are approached and solved in different languages is very practical. I've been able to describe things to developers that are based on approaches/techniques in one language and have them find a corresponding technique that they weren't previously aware of.
* The effort of solving a task in an area you're unfamiliar is a great learning tool that improves your technique.
* A number of the tasks are mind benders that force you to think beyond the normal/idiomatic ways of solving something. Of course these are frequently different for different languages. For me, [[Man_or_boy_test]] was one as well as a number of the functionfunctions of function tasks.
* Then there are other tasks that are just plain mind benders.
* When a number of people cooperate on a task the results can be really worthwhile.
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