From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,FREEMAIL_FROM autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Thread: 103376,4368e7c7118de06c X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit Path: g2news1.google.com!news2.google.com!newsfeed2.dallas1.level3.net!news.level3.com!newsfeed.mathworks.com!nntp.abs.net!ash.uu.net!spool.news.uu.net!not-for-mail Date: Wed, 22 Sep 2004 10:02:41 -0400 From: Hyman Rosen User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 0.8 (Windows/20040913) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: ICFP2004 results are in References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Organization: KBC Financial Products Message-ID: <1095861761.260976@master.nyc.kbcfp.com> Cache-Post-Path: master.nyc.kbcfp.com!unknown@nightcrawler.nyc.kbcfp.com X-Cache: nntpcache 3.0.1 (see http://www.nntpcache.org/) NNTP-Posting-Host: 204.253.250.10 X-Trace: 1095861761 8975 204.253.250.10 Xref: g2news1.google.com comp.lang.ada:3936 Date: 2004-09-22T10:02:41-04:00 List-Id: Marius Amado Alves wrote: > The *problems* are interesting, but IMO they have nothing to do with > programming language. Why should they? Problems are problems. Anyway, Ada is intended to be a general purpose language, and it would gain some notoriety if it were used to create a successful entry. One of the rigorous standards of the contest is that entries which crash are immediately eliminated, so this should gave Ada a leg up, no? > It is almost invariably an artificial intelligence problem. This is good, because it allows a broad range of implementation strategies.