1. Fresh Contest Update
Sorry for the delay.
http://www.users.bigpond.com/ddparnell/contest1/rules.htm
I've now written some programs to run the submissions, evaluate the
results and generate the web page. All in Euphoria, of course. It now
takes just a few minutes to process a new submission and update the
web site.
Just a few notes though...
** There are 34 submission now. Much more than I thought there'd be.
** I've updated the test files (except the 'calibration' file) so all the
previous results needed to be re-evaluated.
** Please don't write any code that wants a user response. The running
of your submisison is automated and there is no person to press "enter".
No points will be deducted if you do, but it'll slow down my testing
process and thus annoy me 
** To clarify the 'style' points. I look at your code then given it
a style score of 0 - 10. Then one point is deducted for each time your
program has a problem with any of the un-timed test files. An extra point
is deducted if your program crashes on any of the un-timed tests.
A maximum of 10 points out of the total of 460 can be lost due to the
style score.
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Derek Parnell
Melbourne, Australia
2. Re: Fresh Contest Update
How did my program fail the "empty file"? I tested on an empty file, and it
outputs 0/0 for the counts.
3. Re: Fresh Contest Update
Andy Serpa wrote:
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> How did my program fail the "empty file"? I tested on an empty file, and it
> outputs
> 0/0 for the counts.
Good point. My evaluation program saw that it had an elapsed time of zero
so it assumed it failed. I'll fix that to cater for explicit zero elapsed
times. Sorry.
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Derek Parnell
Melbourne, Australia
4. Fresh Contest Update
Another three entries uploaded.
Rubens: Well done! There was a huge speed improvement. Just fix the
crash condition and it should be well up there.
Pete: Brazil still holds, but only just.
Welcome to Chris Bensler's effort. Just a slight algorithm issue.
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Derek Parnell
Melbourne, Australia
