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 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!news1.google.com!news.glorb.com!news.zanker.org!border2.nntp.ams.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!newsfeed.freenet.de!feed.news.tiscali.de!darth-vader.mobilixnet.dk!newsfeed.orangenet.dk!news.hacking.dk!pnx.dk!not-for-mail From: Jacob Sparre Andersen Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: ICFP2004 results are in Date: 22 Sep 2004 23:19:39 +0200 Organization: hacking.dk - Doing fun stuff with open source Sender: sparre@sparre.crs4.it Message-ID: References: <1095861761.260976@master.nyc.kbcfp.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: 80.241.165.37 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: xyzzy.adsl.dk 1095887980 32665 80.241.165.37 (22 Sep 2004 21:19:40 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@news.hacking.dk NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 22 Sep 2004 21:19:40 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.2 Xref: g2news1.google.com comp.lang.ada:3965 Date: 2004-09-22T23:19:39+02:00 List-Id: Hyman Rosen wrote: > Marius Amado Alves wrote: > > The *problems* are interesting, but IMO they have nothing to do > > with programming language. > > Why should they? It is implicit (or maybe actually explicit) in the contest that it favours functional programming languages. > 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. I don't think it matters that much which language was used for the winning entries. > 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? Yes. > > It is almost invariably an artificial intelligence problem. > > This is good, because it allows a broad range of implementation > strategies. Yes. I wouldn't quite call the problems AI-like, but they are definitely interesting and possible to solve in many different ways. Jacob -- "I don't want to gain immortality in my works. I want to gain it by not dying."