Ada 95 entrants to ACM ICPC-ish programming contest

Ada 95 entrants to ACM ICPC-ish programming contest

[Tuck]

ACM's Queue magazine has just announced a programming contest, but has restricted the languages in which the project may be coded to C++, C#, Java, or Python.  The deadline is very soon (February 6).  SofCheck is willing to make our Ada95->C++ converter available for the duration of this contest if someone would like to enter an Ada95 program.  Please e-mail the "info" user of the "sofcheck.com" domain if you are interested.

Information on the contest may be found at:

   http://queue.acm.org/icpc/

Re: Ada 95 entrants to ACM ICPC-ish programming contest

[Jeffrey Carter]

On 01/13/2011 02:34 PM, Tuck wrote:
> ACM's Queue magazine has just announced a programming contest, but has
> restricted the languages in which the project may be coded to C++, C#, Java,
> or Python.  The deadline is very soon (February 6).  SofCheck is willing to
> make our Ada95->C++ converter available for the duration of this contest if
> someone would like to enter an Ada95 program.  Please e-mail the "info" user
> of the "sofcheck.com" domain if you are interested.
>
> Information on the contest may be found at:
>
> http://queue.acm.org/icpc/

Thanks a lot for the offer. The contest requires that entries be source code; 
will a translated Ada program work without special libraries?

-- 
Jeff Carter
"Blessed are they who convert their neighbors'
oxen, for they shall inhibit their girth."
Monty Python's Life of Brian
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Re: Ada 95 entrants to ACM ICPC-ish programming contest

[TheGunslinger]

On Thu, 13 Jan 2011 14:56:42 -0700, Jeffrey Carter
<spam.jrcarter.not@spam.not.acm.org> wrote:

>On 01/13/2011 02:34 PM, Tuck wrote:
>> ACM's Queue magazine has just announced a programming contest, but has
>> restricted the languages in which the project may be coded to C++, C#, Java,
>> or Python.  The deadline is very soon (February 6).  SofCheck is willing to
>> make our Ada95->C++ converter available for the duration of this contest if
>> someone would like to enter an Ada95 program.  Please e-mail the "info" user
>> of the "sofcheck.com" domain if you are interested.
>>
>> Information on the contest may be found at:
>>
>> http://queue.acm.org/icpc/
>
>Thanks a lot for the offer. The contest requires that entries be source code; 
>will a translated Ada program work without special libraries?

Take a surf over to the website and read the rules, FAQ's and such.
All your questions are answered there.

And if they aren't, you at least can ask/receive an question/answer.

IMHO,

MJR

Re: Ada 95 entrants to ACM ICPC-ish programming contest

[Georg Bauhaus]

On 14.01.11 04:57, TheGunslinger wrote:
> On Thu, 13 Jan 2011 14:56:42 -0700, Jeffrey Carter
> <spam.jrcarter.not@spam.not.acm.org> wrote:
> 
>> On 01/13/2011 02:34 PM, Tuck wrote:
>>> ACM's Queue magazine has just announced a programming contest, but has
>>> restricted the languages in which the project may be coded to C++, C#, Java,
>>> or Python.  The deadline is very soon (February 6).  SofCheck is willing to
>>> make our Ada95->C++ converter available for the duration of this contest if
>>> someone would like to enter an Ada95 program.  Please e-mail the "info" user
>>> of the "sofcheck.com" domain if you are interested.
>>>
>>> Information on the contest may be found at:
>>>
>>> http://queue.acm.org/icpc/
>>
>> Thanks a lot for the offer. The contest requires that entries be source code; 
>> will a translated Ada program work without special libraries?
> 
> Take a surf over to the website and read the rules, FAQ's and such.
> All your questions are answered there.

I think the question was about the way SofCheck's converter is
working: will translating the converter's output require
libraries other than
1) those of C++ proper (on Linux, for the contest) and
2) pthread, as the contest seems to require?
Or will it (3) require the presence of other files, possibly binary files,
possibly in other directories, files that provide for the equivalent
of an Ada run-time system?

From the rules:

"Your player will be implemented as a separate program, in C++, C#, Java or
Python. You will interact with the game by reading information about the game
world from standard input and writing your next move to standard output."

"Source code for a player may consist of multiple files, but all files must
reside in a single directory."

"For C/C++ submissions, all files ending in .cpp will be compiled and linked
together into an executable. During compilation, the submission directory will
be the current directory. Player code will be compiled with the -O option and
will be linked with -lpthread."

Re: Ada 95 entrants to ACM ICPC-ish programming contest

[Jeffrey Carter]

On 01/13/2011 08:57 PM, TheGunslinger wrote:
>
> Take a surf over to the website and read the rules, FAQ's and such.
> All your questions are answered there.

My question had nothing to do with the contest. It was about the requirements 
for a program produced by SofCheck's converter. Typically such a program would 
need access to an Ada-run-time library to handle tasking, protected objects, and 
the like.

-- 
Jeff Carter
"To Err is human, to really screw up, you need C++!"
St�phane Richard
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Re: Ada 95 entrants to ACM ICPC-ish programming contest

[Tuck]

On Friday, January 14, 2011 12:36:23 PM UTC-5, Jeffrey Carter wrote:
> On 01/13/2011 08:57 PM, TheGunslinger wrote:
> >
> > Take a surf over to the website and read the rules, FAQ's and such.
> > All your questions are answered there.
> 
> My question had nothing to do with the contest. It was about the requirements 
> for a program produced by SofCheck's converter. Typically such a program would 
> need access to an Ada-run-time library to handle tasking, protected objects, and 
> the like.

We provide a conversion of the Ada RTL to C++ as well.

> 
> -- 
> Jeff Carter

-Tucker Taft
SofCheck, Inc.

Re: Ada 95 entrants to ACM ICPC-ish programming contest

[Jeffrey Carter]

On 01/27/2011 03:01 PM, Tuck wrote:
>
> We provide a conversion of the Ada RTL to C++ as well.

Wonderful.

-- 
Jeff Carter
"Oh Lord, bless this thy hand grenade, that with it thou
mayst blow thine enemies to tiny bits, in thy mercy."
Monty Python and the Holy Grail
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