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!news2.google.com!npeer03.iad.highwinds-media.com!news.highwinds-media.com!feed-me.highwinds-media.com!post02.iad.highwinds-media.com!news.flashnewsgroups.com-b7.4zTQh5tI3A!not-for-mail Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: New ACM challenge is language-discriminatory References: <4080476f-d835-449a-8c39-fcfb327a94fc@z4g2000prh.googlegroups.com> From: Stephen Leake Date: Fri, 18 Dec 2009 21:52:39 -0500 Message-ID: User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.2 (windows-nt) Cancel-Lock: sha1:sXILwiS6JfBxiUni+yB3A22Yro0= MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Complaints-To: abuse@flashnewsgroups.com Organization: FlashNewsgroups.com X-Trace: 7fcd24b2c4011e197caa723255 Xref: g2news1.google.com comp.lang.ada:8438 Date: 2009-12-18T21:52:39-05:00 List-Id: Adam Beneschan writes: > On Dec 18, 3:26�am, Jean-Pierre Rosen wrote: >> ACM has launched a new programming challenge:http://queue.acm.org/icpc/index.cfm?page=faq >> >> 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. I don't see the actual definition of how to "win" the competition, but the implication is the only thing that counts is winning games against other code submissions - no judging of code. We should at least ask for a rationale for the language choices. -- -- Stephe