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From: peter@ficc.ferranti.com (Peter da Silva)
Newsgroups: comp.org.acm
Subject: Re: Contests (was Re: Yet another posting...:))
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Date: 6 May 91 15:46:25 GMT
References: <GLENN.91May2094528@curie.ces.cwru.edu> <1991May2.221106.5618@cs.columbia.edu> <RANG.91May2234522@nexus.cs.wisc.edu> <1991May3.150303.22506@mcs.kent.edu>
Reply-To: peter@ficc.ferranti.com (Peter da Silva)
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In article <1991May3.150303.22506@mcs.kent.edu> rothstei@mcs.kent.edu (Michael Rothstein) writes:
> In article <RANG.91May2234522@nexus.cs.wisc.edu> rang@cs.wisc.edu (Anton Rang) writes:
> >  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...

Perhaps these contests should use an unusual or unfamiliar language to
handicap everyone equally? I vote for BCPL (no, just kidding. Really.
I meant Forth. Hey! No hitting!).
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