[vox] ACM programming contest

[Bill Ward]

On Thu, Nov 11, 2010 at 5:34 PM, Bill Broadley <bill at broadley.org> wrote:

>
> On 11/11/2010 02:29 PM, Bill Ward wrote:
> > Of course the judges
> > shouldn't know who wrote what, for impartiality.
>
> Yeah, I can see the need for judges if the best program can't be
> quantified in some objective way.  I lean towards settling the contest
> on the program's field of battle.  Personally I'm more motivated to find
> the best solution I can instead of something as open ended as "video
> game" or "email utility".
>
>
I'd rather have the contest entries prove useful beyond the contest itself.
You don't want a dozen programs that all do the same thing do you?  Wouldn't
you rather have about a dozen innovative, different tools that all do
something different and useful?
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