Re: [WOT] Google Programming Contest.
ABH == Ask Bjoern Hansen [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: ABH The myth lives on. :-) It's not quite true. It was at UCLA and ABH the story was different: ABH http://nntp.perl.org/group/perl.advocacy;max=961 ABH http://nntp.perl.org/group/perl.advocacy/956 Quite lame to make a programming contest in which choice of language makes all problems easier. When we were running the Duke Internet Programming Contest (mid 90's) we allowed any and all languages for which we had a compiler. The last year we ran it, that even included Ada as provided by Sun, Haskell, and of course, perl, C, C++, Pascal, FORTRAN, shell script, and probably a few more. The folks that won usually picked the right language for the right problem. All of our working solutions given at the end of the contest were written in C. Naturally, the entire judging mechanism was written in perl (version 3 even!), except the submission programs, which were in /bin/sh for portability. Ahhh, the good ol' days. ;-) -- =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Vivek Khera, Ph.D.Khera Communications, Inc. Internet: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Rockville, MD +1-240-453-8497 AIM: vivekkhera Y!: vivek_khera http://www.khera.org/~vivek/
Re: [WOT] Google Programming Contest.
On Thu, 7 Feb 2002, Medi Montaseri wrote: This reaminds me of a Brain Bowl competition at USC a few years ago, where the winner (a one man Perl speaking team) solved 4 out of 6 problems in the given time (compared to other multiple member teams) and the school of engineering decided to remove Perl as one of the possible languages The myth lives on. :-) It's not quite true. It was at UCLA and the story was different: http://nntp.perl.org/group/perl.advocacy;max=961 http://nntp.perl.org/group/perl.advocacy/956 - ask -- ask bjoern hansen, http://ask.netcetera.dk/ !try; do(); more than a billion impressions per week, http://valueclick.com
[WOT] Google Programming Contest.
Sorry for the Way Off Topic, and sorry if I missed this on the list already: http://www.google.com/programming-contest/ They say C++ or Java. What, no Perl? -- Bill Moseley mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [WOT] Google Programming Contest.
Bill == Bill Moseley [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Bill Sorry for the Way Off Topic, and sorry if I missed this on the list already: Bill http://www.google.com/programming-contest/ Bill They say C++ or Java. What, no Perl? No, they say must use our C++ interface routines, and no closed-source solutions. If you provide an open source package, you must tell where and how to download and build. Thus, Perl is fine. -- Randal L. Schwartz - Stonehenge Consulting Services, Inc. - +1 503 777 0095 [EMAIL PROTECTED] URL:http://www.stonehenge.com/merlyn/ Perl/Unix/security consulting, Technical writing, Comedy, etc. etc. See PerlTraining.Stonehenge.com for onsite and open-enrollment Perl training!
Re: [WOT] Google Programming Contest.
* Randal L. Schwartz ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [08 Feb 2002 05:28]: * Dave == Dave Rolsky [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: In the Slashdot discussion, there's a link to a usenet posting by a Google employee which explicitly says only C++ or Java, no Perl or Lisp. A google employee is perhaps only an opinion though. Is it the group running the contest? Yes, it's an official opinion. cheers, -- iain. http://eh.org/~koschei/
Re: [WOT] Google Programming Contest.
This reaminds me of a Brain Bowl competition at USC a few years ago, where the winner (a one man Perl speaking team) solved 4 out of 6 problems in the given time (compared to other multiple member teams) and the school of engineering decided to remove Perl as one of the possible languages The story ends with the winner is currently working and uses his prize, a copy of MS Visual C++, as a door stopper Having said that I don't think Google has anything against Perl. They use lots of it. Bill Moseley wrote: Sorry for the Way Off Topic, and sorry if I missed this on the list already: http://www.google.com/programming-contest/ They say C++ or Java. What, no Perl? -- Bill Moseley mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] -- - Medi Montaseri [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unix Distributed Systems EngineerHTTP://www.CyberShell.com CyberShell Engineering -
Re: [WOT] Google Programming Contest.
On 7 Feb 2002, Randal L. Schwartz wrote: No, they say must use our C++ interface routines, and no closed-source solutions. If you provide an open source package, you must tell where and how to download and build. Thus, Perl is fine. In the Slashdot discussion, there's a link to a usenet posting by a Google employee which explicitly says only C++ or Java, no Perl or Lisp. -dave /*== www.urth.org we await the New Sun ==*/
Re: [WOT] Google Programming Contest.
Dave == Dave Rolsky [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Dave In the Slashdot discussion, there's a link to a usenet posting by a Google Dave employee which explicitly says only C++ or Java, no Perl or Lisp. A google employee is perhaps only an opinion though. Is it the group running the contest? -- Randal L. Schwartz - Stonehenge Consulting Services, Inc. - +1 503 777 0095 [EMAIL PROTECTED] URL:http://www.stonehenge.com/merlyn/ Perl/Unix/security consulting, Technical writing, Comedy, etc. etc. See PerlTraining.Stonehenge.com for onsite and open-enrollment Perl training!
Re: [WOT] Google Programming Contest.
Bill Moseley [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Sorry for the Way Off Topic, and sorry if I missed this on the list already: http://www.google.com/programming-contest/ It seems like a lame way to hire a contractor. :) And an even lamer way to get hired as a contractor. (ps to randal--dammit, next time i'll *read* the outbound headers!) -- keith [EMAIL PROTECTED] public key: http://wombat.san-francisco.ca.us/kkeller/public_key alt.os.linux.slackware FAQ: http://wombat.san-francisco.ca.us/perl/fom
