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From: peter@ficc.ferranti.com (Peter da Silva)
Newsgroups: comp.org.acm
Subject: Re: The Programming Contest IS A GAME!!!
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Date: 10 May 91 20:03:46 GMT
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In article <1991May9.004140.1116@tc.fluke.COM> kurt@tc.fluke.COM (Kurt Guntheroth) writes:
> I can't believe all this <expletive> about the programming contest.  How is
> football or basketball like real life.  It's a CONTEST.  Y'know, a GAME?

And what's a game? A model of a system. The closer it gets to reality within
the constraints on playability, the better. Look at any war game out there.
Eastern Front, or Afrika Corps. These games are considered the tops because
of the level of detail and the closeness to reality.

> Geez.  I bet you complain if the Obfuscated C code isn't prettyprinted.

The OCCC is more like the sort of game you're thinking of. Programming
contests are closer to the game-as-model idea.
-- 
Peter da Silva; Ferranti International Controls Corporation; +1 713 274 5180;
Sugar Land, TX  77487-5012;         `-_-' "Have you hugged your wolf, today?"