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=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Thread: a07f3367d7,9a1fa8abd38d1b52 X-Google-Attributes: gida07f3367d7,public,usenet X-Google-NewGroupId: yes X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII Path: g2news1.google.com!postnews.google.com!z4g2000prh.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail From: Adam Beneschan Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: New ACM challenge is language-discriminatory Date: Fri, 18 Dec 2009 08:26:08 -0800 (PST) Organization: http://groups.google.com Message-ID: <4080476f-d835-449a-8c39-fcfb327a94fc@z4g2000prh.googlegroups.com> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: 66.126.103.122 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: posting.google.com 1261153569 13040 127.0.0.1 (18 Dec 2009 16:26:09 GMT) X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 18 Dec 2009 16:26:09 +0000 (UTC) Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: z4g2000prh.googlegroups.com; posting-host=66.126.103.122; posting-account=duW0ogkAAABjRdnxgLGXDfna0Gc6XqmQ User-Agent: G2/1.0 X-HTTP-UserAgent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 7.0; Windows NT 6.0; WOW64; SLCC1; .NET CLR 2.0.50727; Media Center PC 5.0; .NET CLR 3.5.21022; .NET CLR 3.5.30729; .NET CLR 3.0.30618),gzip(gfe),gzip(gfe) Xref: g2news1.google.com comp.lang.ada:8424 Date: 2009-12-18T08:26:08-08:00 List-Id: On Dec 18, 3:26=A0am, Jean-Pierre Rosen wrote: > ACM has launched a new programming challenge:http://queue.acm.org/icpc/in= dex.cfm?page=3Dfaq > > However, the only languages allowed are C++, C# and Java. > I could understand reasons for having everyone compete with the same > language, but if more than one is allowed, it should be open to all > (including our favorite language, of course ;-) ). "All"? Georg implied that they may not have the staff to look at Ada solutions, but I'm sure that they at least have a few people there that can understand it; there have got to be tons of other obscure programming languages that nobody there would be able to understand. Plus, are any of the judges going to be enthusiastic about looking at a Forth program, or at an APL program that someone wrote in one line just to prove that they could?? :) So some discrimination seems necessary---the line has to be drawn somewhere. Too bad they drew it on the wrong side of our language. -- Adam