I'm not sure if you are allowed to distribute that "translator" compiler.
On Mon, May 10, 2010 at 6:43 AM, Pedro Osório <mebm.pedroso...@gmail.com>wrote: > 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<google-code%2bunsubscr...@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<google-code%2bunsubscr...@googlegroups.com> > . > For more options, visit this group at > http://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.
