From: Marius Amado Alves <amado.alves@netcabo.pt>
To: comp.lang.ada@ada-france.org
Subject: Re: ICFP2004 results are in
Date: Wed, 22 Sep 2004 14:01:08 +0100
Date: 2004-09-22T14:01:08+01:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <mailman.58.1095858154.390.comp.lang.ada@ada-france.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <plr7ouo6g4.fsf@sparre.crs4.it>
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!
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Thread overview: 29+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-09-21 20:19 ICFP2004 results are in Martin Dowie
2004-09-22 0:15 ` Cesar Rabak
2004-09-22 3:37 ` Hyman Rosen
2004-09-22 15:08 ` Cesar Rabak
2004-09-22 15:14 ` Ed Falis
2004-09-22 17:30 ` Samuel Tardieu
2004-09-22 17:42 ` Ed Falis
2004-09-22 19:25 ` Samuel Tardieu
2004-09-22 19:31 ` Ed Falis
2004-09-22 23:32 ` Rod Chapman
2004-09-23 1:41 ` Ed Falis
2004-09-23 8:35 ` Martin Krischik
2004-09-23 13:07 ` Ed Falis
2004-09-22 23:13 ` Stephen Leake
2004-09-23 1:38 ` Ed Falis
2004-09-23 23:54 ` Stephen Leake
2004-09-23 14:15 ` Samuel Tardieu
2004-09-23 23:58 ` Stephen Leake
2004-09-24 1:33 ` Ed Falis
2004-09-22 12:04 ` Jacob Sparre Andersen
2004-09-22 12:56 ` Martin Dowie
2004-09-22 19:50 ` Jacob Sparre Andersen
2004-09-22 13:01 ` Marius Amado Alves [this message]
2004-09-22 14:02 ` Hyman Rosen
2004-09-22 21:19 ` Jacob Sparre Andersen
2004-09-22 21:41 ` Hyman Rosen
2004-09-22 14:16 ` Martin Dowie
2004-09-22 14:29 ` stephane richard
[not found] <20040921221021.CBB084C4140@lovelace.ada-france.org>
2004-10-02 12:27 ` Andrew
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