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From: "Rego, P." <pvrego@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: Make with Ada 2019 : DogRobot
Date: Tue, 26 Mar 2019 06:05:16 -0700 (PDT)
Date: 2019-03-26T06:05:16-07:00	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1a40fad3-ff41-4fce-b6df-3378ea0a67a2@googlegroups.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <6b918556-b1ff-4cf9-a5c7-d5fd9b5b72c6@googlegroups.com>

> Just taking a quick look at your project documentation, it is a tremendous work completed just in two weeks. Therefore, this project is worth to study in details. Congratulations and thank you for sharing it.
> 
> Anh Vo

Now that the winners are chosen (3 weeks late from original date), the first place is a 40 LINES OF CODE project. 1/3 of the project description is totally unrelevant (explaining how light is used in Photography, Astronomy and Architecture), and another big part explaining unrelated facts to the project (how a LDR works??). No sw design, no system architecture??? I don't question the validity of this project, regarding the fact that it is ALMOST NOTHING OF Ada for a "Make with Ada" contest, it is ok in general DIY space. Is the intention of this contest to transform the use of Ada into a junk of "don't know how to make with Ada" like other languages are used in some newborn makerspaces.

The 3rd winner was implemented mostly in Python according to the project description, and the Ada code is not available (actually no code whatsoever). The 2nd place seems fare. 

Also my own project probably was not good enough to win the contest, no problem at all with this, but please, judges are nuts this year. Mine had a complete architecture and 900 LOC among several artifacts, and I wouldn't think it would win. Not talking about the 3 weeks of delay without any satisfation to the participants, which is unaceptable.

I am very sorry for this outburst, but I couldn't not keep it quiet. I was naive thinking this contest was serious.  It could be a good opportunity to share the other communities that making software with Ada is to make different and better software. So I am very ashamed of having participated this edition. It was really a waste of time and (very much) personal effort.

Pablo.


  parent reply	other threads:[~2019-03-26 13:05 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2019-02-16  1:02 Make with Ada 2019 : DogRobot Rego, P.
2019-02-16  6:04 ` Anh Vo
2019-02-16  9:26   ` Rego, P.
2019-03-26 13:05   ` Rego, P. [this message]
2019-03-26 17:16     ` Niklas Holsti
2019-03-27  0:45     ` Jerry Petrey
2019-03-29 11:36     ` fabien.chouteau
2019-03-29 17:35       ` Dennis Lee Bieber
2019-02-16 16:51 ` Jesper Quorning
2019-02-16 17:42   ` Simon Wright
2019-02-17  5:50     ` Jesper Quorning
2019-02-17 22:23     ` Rego, P.
2019-02-18  0:44       ` Jere
2019-02-17 22:17   ` Rego, P.
2019-02-19  4:16     ` Jesper Quorning
2019-02-20 15:27       ` Rego, P.
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