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From: jds@duke.cs.duke.edu (Joseph D. Sloan)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.misc
Subject: Problems needed!
Message-ID: <9819@duke.cs.duke.edu>
Date: Thu, 25-Jun-87 08:06:49 EDT
Article-I.D.: duke.9819
Posted: Thu Jun 25 08:06:49 1987
Date-Received: Sat, 27-Jun-87 01:00:25 EDT
Organization: Duke University CS Dept.; Durham, NC
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	It's common practice in comparative programming languages 
courses to assign the same problem in several different languages to 
compare and contrast different features of those languages.
For example, consider the effort involved in coding a solution
to "Who owns the zebra?" in C and in Prolog.  Ideally the problems
should be simple and to the point so that a number of problems/languages
can be assigned.  In this sense the zebra problem is probably too hard.

	Would folks that have such problems or collections of such
problems be willing to share?   Please describe 1) the problem, 
2) proposed languages, and 3) what langage features are being contrasted.
I will be happy to summarize mail to the net but I suspect this is
of general interest so replying directly to the net is appropriate.
Please folks, lots of problems!

				Many thanks,
				jds@duke