one of the two major programming contests for non-students (that I'm aware of) each year is already on the topsider arena. I see very little benefit to making the other one be of the same format; indeed, to me, this seems to stifle creativity.
Plus, speaking on a purely selfish note, I like to read all the problems at the start of the contest, thinking about multiple things at the same time throughout, like being able to just throw out a quick solution in a scripting language such as Perl or Python or even construct an elegant solution in a functional or stack-based language where appropriate and, perhaps most relevantly, I suck at the TopCoder challenge phase. ... so my vote (not that this is up for vote) is to keep GCJ off the arena. On 8 Nov 2010, at 18:48, Leopoldo Taravilse <[email protected]> wrote: > It would be great to use TopCoder Arena! > > Come on guys! Learn C++! > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "google-codejam" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/google-code?hl=en. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "google-codejam" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/google-code?hl=en.
