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From: rang@cs.wisc.edu (Anton Rang)
Subject: Contests (was Re: Yet another posting...:))
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Date: 2 May 91 23:45:22

In article <1991May2.221106.5618@cs.columbia.edu> blair@cs.columbia.edu (Blair Seidler) writes:
>The real problem is that it is much easier to use the
>objective (does it produce the correct output) judging procedure than the
>subjective (would a good programmer have organized this code this way).

  This is definitely a problem.  Of course, judging "objectively" can
be difficult too.  Even at the ACM nationals the way things are now,
there have been a lot of problems involving ambiguous problem
specifications and the like.  (Well, actually I don't know about the
past three or four years, but before then....)

  BTW, is anyone else upset that Turbo Pascal is commonly used at
contests rather than Standard Pascal?  :-/  Probably not.

	Anton
   
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