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Marius Amado Alves wrote:
> The *problems* are interesting, but IMO they have nothing to do with
> programming language. It is almost invariably an artificial
> intelligence problem. The success depends on the artificial
> intelligence method devised, not on the choice of programming
> language. (For the 2004 ants problem I think I would have bet on a
> genetic programming solution.)
>
> Unfortunately the problems are the only interesting thing in these
> contests. The prize money is too low (specially after division by 5 or
> 10 team members), the choice of programming language is a false target
> as I said, and the winners are called bad names ("discriminating
> hacker") go figure!

But - there's no such thing as bad publicity...