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rang@cs.wisc.edu (Anton Rang) writes:

     This is definitely a problem.  Of course, judging "objectively" can
   be difficult too.  Even at the ACM nationals the way things are now,
   there have been a lot of problems involving ambiguous problem
   specifications and the like.  (Well, actually I don't know about the
   past three or four years, but before then....)

The nationals contest was beautiful last year.  I had no problem with
how the problems were stated or with how the contest was run.  The
regional contest I went to this year, however....

     BTW, is anyone else upset that Turbo Pascal is commonly used at
   contests rather than Standard Pascal?  :-/  Probably not.

No.  Turbo Pascal is standard Pascal.  Live with it or don't use Pascal.
(Sorry, a little bigotry here.  I use C anyways.)  Seriously, I can
understand why people wouldn't want to use Turbo, but it is a very
nice system.  Is it actually possible to program in Standard Pascal,
or do all Pascal compilers have hacks to make the language usable
for real work?  (i.e. assign(), reset(), etc.)  Clearly, I don't know
my Pascal standards (other than Turbo :-) very well.

Question:  I didn't go to nationals this year and was wondering whether
they ended up using unix for the contest.  They were talking about it
at one point.... If they did use it, did they strip down the library
so that it didn't include unixisms like popen?

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