Just curious (for my own pride), what languages were used by the
winning 8 that were mentioned?
Jesse
On 11/6/06, Nicholas Leippe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
On Saturday 04 November 2006 20:43, Dave Smith wrote:
> Just wanted to share my impressions about the Mozy coding contest. I
> found that the majority of the questions had to do with the ability to
> parse text and manipulate strings. Only one question had to do with
> anything else, and it was thrown out. I can only conclude that BDS
> thinks people who can write programs to parse text in 10 minutes or less
> are worth a $10,000 award. I personally think the breadth of the
> questions was lacking. Maybe phase 2 had a wider breadth of problems --
> I didn't advance, so I don't know.
>
> I personally felt limited as my strongest language (C++) lacks good text
> processing in its standard library. Since I was not allowed to use my
> favorite libraries (Qt has an awesome string class that would have made
> the problems *much* easier), I was unable to complete several of the
> problems in the alotted time.I did complete one of the problems in 2
> minutes using Perl, while most of the others left me gasping for air
> after 10 minutes of C/C++. Oh well. :)
>
> Curious how others did, and also wondering if the $10k was awarded today.
>
I felt similarly. I managed to finish all but one--which I was less than 30
seconds from finishing.
I did it all in PHP--as that is what I currently use most. I am proficient
with C and C++, but as I haven't used them in my day-to-day for a long time I
am a bit rusty. A timed contest isn't the best time to brush up.
PHP is also not the best at text processing, at least I do very little text
processing in a normal day. I found the preg functions highly useful, and
throughout the entire round I kept thinking that some perl monger is gonna
clean up.
I didn't advance to the second round, but it was still fun.
If anyone is interested I can post my solutions to the six round one problems.
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