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Article #359Re: Contests (was Re: Yet another posting...:))
From: David Shackelford
Date: Tue, 07 May 1991 16:43
Date: Tue, 07 May 1991 16:43
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In article <1991May3.150303.22506@mcs.kent.edu> rothstei@mcs.kent.edu (Michael Rothstein) writes: > In article <RANG.91May2234522@nexus.cs.wisc.edu> rang@cs.wisc.edu (Anton Rang) writes: > > BTW, is anyone else upset that Turbo Pascal is commonly used at > >contests rather than Standard Pascal? :-/ Probably not. > Well, I am: one reason why we did not participate last year was that I > felt we would not be able to compete with all the Turbo-experts... I have a decidedly PC-oriented viewpoint in this area. Turbo IS the standard Pascal, IMHO. Other Pascals need to change to the Turbo way of doing things. (With exception of machine-specifics). When I program in "standard" Pascal I get completely lost because you can't do ANYTHING in it! For the college level contests, I think the only way to go is ANSI C. Better would be C++, but not enough people know it yet... For the high school level, it's a tossup between Pascal and BASIC. David Shackelford shack@cs.arizona.edu UofA ACM Secretary
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!usc!wuarchive!uwm.edu!lll-winken!iggy.GW.Vitalink.COM!widener!ukma!asuvax!noao!arizona!shack From: shack@cs.arizona.edu (David Shackelford) Newsgroups: comp.org.acm Subject: Re: Contests (was Re: Yet another posting...:)) Message-ID: <1494@caslon.cs.arizona.edu> Date: 7 May 91 16:43:14 GMT References: <GLENN.91May2094528@curie.ces.cwru.edu> <1991May2.221106.5618@cs.columbia.edu> <RANG.91May2234522@nexus.cs.wisc.edu> <1991May3.150303.22506@mcs.kent.edu> <6X3B-PB@xds13.ferranti.com> Organization: U of Arizona CS Dept, Tucson Lines: 20