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Given the interest in participation, is there also interest in a private le=
aderboard for participants using Ada?

I could go either way. On the one hand, it could motivate participation! Bu=
t the leaderboard seems to operate on a "faster is better" proposition, and=
 I while I finished this one relatively quickly (given my lack of experienc=
e), a much better program emerged after reading comments on my code (thanks=
 Maxim and Emmanuel!) and after reading a forum for a different language, w=
here I discovered that my code had a bug.

Also negative: I don't think there's any way to guarantee that someone used=
 Ada. You just add yourself to the leaderboard using a code.

john perry