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David is an occasional blogger, software engineer, Nintendo fanboy, liberal, news magazine addict, voracious TiVo user, and bibliophile. He was born in St. Louis, grew up in southern Indiana, and returned to St. Louis to attend Washington University. He hasn't managed to escape yet. He's a fan of free wine tastings, too many tv shows to name, and eating out. David makes his living developing web applications used internally by his employer. He doesn't blog about work because he's heard too many stories about that causing workplace troubles. There's more on the about page. |
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23 February 2003 - 1:14 am
Friday was the first ACM programming contest. Things went pretty well. A couple of technical glitches, but we got them figured out. And there were plenty of contestants, and, in contrast to the last programming contest ACM put on, people actually finished the contest. The only real downside was that none of the people writing their programs in Java managed to turn in a correct program. We had correct submissions is Perl, C, and a combination of awk and C++, but no Java. Was Java poorly suited to solving this problem, or do the best programmers at WashU move on from Java as quickly as they can? The next contest is the Friday after spring break. Hopefully the Java groups will do a bit better then.
Oh, if you want to take a look at the problem, it's online at http://acm.wustl.edu/contest/index.php#past.
Posted by on 23 February 2003 at 1:14 AM
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OK, I can't resist. David, the link you have should be "...aCm..." The "c" is missing.
Are you making a covert statemetn about the role of "C" in ACM and its programming contests?
I would like to uphold the honor of Java but Friday afternoons are tough for me. I'll see if I can get clear for the Friday after Spring break.
Thanks for doing the contets; I think it's a great thing.
Posted by rkc on 23 February 2003 - 1:27 PM
No subtle references, I'm afraid, just general fatigue. Everything is fixed now.
Posted by david on 23 February 2003 - 2:54 PM