VERY nice... Dave
-----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Dar Scott Sent: Monday, September 20, 2004 10:42 PM To: How to use Revolution Subject: how Revolution did in programming contest: 82nd percentile The results are in! http://www.cis.upenn.edu/proj/plclub/contest//index.php Back in June my son and I entered a programming contest. He was a strategist and I did the Transcript programming. We got a very late start, but had a world simulator going for the lightning division written in Revolution. We created an ant brain by hand on a big sheet of paper and keyed that in. Our two entries placed 57 and 58 out of 87 entries in the lightning division, pretty good for starting almost half way though the lightning division's 24 hours. Notice that most of the teams did not have an entry for the lightning division; only 52 out of 230 teams had an entry ready for the lightning division. Only a dozen languages were represented. We did well for the main division. For the main division, we cleaned up the world simulator and created an ant-brain compiler using Revolution. As we approached the end (just three hours to go) we had some cool ideas but I wimped out and entered what we had, thinking we were going to crash (we people). I now think we should have done it. Also, that would have exploited some Transcript features. (For some reason the "ant [brain] size" is wrong for our entries on the web pages; I think we generated files that the competition player liked, but the line counter did not. Too long of comments, I guess.) We came in 65th out of 361. We were allowed to enter two, and we threw in an older ugly one, but it didn't do as well. Ours was the only entry in any Xtalk. The prize winners' languages were 1) Objective Caml, 2) a mix of Java, C++, Perl & M4, 3) Haskell and 4) C++. In the main division we beat all the Basic, Pascal, Erlang, Smalltalk and tcl entries as well as others. That may not say much; they had few entries. We beat most of the Objective C, Perl, Python, Lisp, Scheme, ML, Ruby, Haskell, Java, C-variant* entries. Our team was smaller than most teams up where we placed, so we are pleased. Dar * C++, C, D and C# taken as a whole **************************************** Dar Scott Consulting http://www.swcp.com/dsc/ Programming Services **************************************** _______________________________________________ use-revolution mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution _______________________________________________ use-revolution mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
