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From: rothstei@mcs.kent.edu (Michael Rothstein)
Newsgroups: comp.org.acm
Subject: Re: Contests (was Re: Yet another posting...:))
Message-ID: <1991May3.150303.22506@mcs.kent.edu>
Date: 3 May 91 15:03:03 GMT
References: <GLENN.91May2094528@curie.ces.cwru.edu> <1991May2.221106.5618@cs.columbia.edu> <RANG.91May2234522@nexus.cs.wisc.edu>
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In article <RANG.91May2234522@nexus.cs.wisc.edu> rang@cs.wisc.edu (Anton Rang) writes:
<remarks about objectivity deleted>
>
>  BTW, is anyone else upset that Turbo Pascal is commonly used at
>contests rather than Standard Pascal?  :-/  Probably not.

Well, I am: one reason why we did not participate last year was that I
felt we would not be able to compete with all the Turbo-experts, since
we have made a point of not using PC's. Our dept. owns exactly 1, and 
I have a feeling we cannot afford to move it or purchase one for programming
contest use :-(.
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Michael Rothstein (Kent State U) |	``The above are my personal
(rothstei@cs.kent.edu)		 |	beliefs and opinions, not KSU's''