From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me
X-Spam-Level: 
X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.3 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,INVALID_MSGID
	autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4
X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit
X-Google-Thread: 103376,3e08c98d7ce85399
X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public
From: "Robert I. Eachus" <eachus@mitre.org>
Subject: Re: Kindness
Date: 1999/09/03
Message-ID: <37D02CC0.BEF1BC69@mitre.org>#1/1
X-Deja-AN: 520752100
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
References: <37CC6844.AB898EEE@rational.com> <37CE93CD.799A225A@pwfl.com>
 <37CF0FE0.2B299477@acenet.com.au> <37CFF7DC.CFF9717C@pwfl.com>
 <1999Sep3.125818.1@eisner>
X-Accept-Language: en
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii
X-Complaints-To: usenet@news.mitre.org
X-Trace: top.mitre.org 936389579 9781 129.83.41.77 (3 Sep 1999 20:12:59 GMT)
Organization: The MITRE Corporation
Mime-Version: 1.0
NNTP-Posting-Date: 3 Sep 1999 20:12:59 GMT
Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada
Date: 1999-09-03T20:12:59+00:00
List-Id: <comp.lang.ada>

Larry Kilgallen wrote:
  
> Another group I read has a contest going (obviously known to those who
> really follow the group) for the most creative non-answer to homework
> problems.  Something that goes into great detail but cannot possibly
> be true is the ideal.
 
    I prefer a perfectly correct answer (not the one intended by the
instructor of course), that references material that the student may not
encounter for years.  For example, I could program the eight queens
problem with eight interacting tasks as a demonstration of rendesvous. 
(Nico Lomuto wrote a neat eight queens program years ago which generated
a new set of tasks for possible position in the next row.  I wonder if
there are now machines that can run it.)

-- 

                                        Robert I. Eachus

with Standard_Disclaimer;
use  Standard_Disclaimer;
function Message (Text: in Clever_Ideas) return Better_Ideas is...