You have a good point but I think they're excluding operating systems from this one. That is, you can use a non-free operating system as long as the environment running on that OS is free.
This is for practical reasons obviously, as everyone will use Windows/ Linux/OS X, when it comes to programming languages it is much harder to afford having non-free environments because there are potentially a lot of these that could be used and it would become impractical for evaluation purposes. Btw, I noticed the Mathematica solutions because I know some people that would probably compete if they could use Mathematica or Matlab. On May 10, 8:04 am, Pablo Ariel Heiber <pablohei...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Mon, May 10, 2010 at 3:59 AM, Carlos Guia <zyx3d...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Now you are just trouble making, the rules not only use Visual Studio > > express as an example of what is allowed, but they clearly say "compiler or > > interpreter is freely available" it doesn't say complete set of tools or > > nothing like that. Is very clear that only the compiler/interpreter has to > > be freely available. If I had access to one, I would run my codes on a debug > > enabled PS3 using gcc for ppc Cell-BE. > > Actually I'm troubly making, but that's just because rules doesn't > seem to make much sense. Actually, I can rename a language > SuperMathematica and make a trivial compiler of my own that compiles > it to Mathematica code (like ghc with different languages), and then > the compiler would be freely available. > > What I mean is, while I'm all for freely available software, I think > the rules should state what it is intended (replicability of the run > to some extent) instead of a flawed implementation of that. > > BTW, I'm not competing, and I don't really care about this details, I > only ask to have some interesting arguments. > > Best, > Pablo > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "google-codejam" group. > To post to this group, send email to google-c...@googlegroups.com. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > google-code+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit this group > athttp://groups.google.com/group/google-code?hl=en. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "google-codejam" group. To post to this group, send email to google-c...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to google-code+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/google-code?hl=en.
