1. RE: Contest Update
Andy Serpa wrote:
> I just figured you wanted this to be a programming challenge rather than
> a "rule-reading" challenge.
It's a programming challenge based on a number of rules :)
What's the alternatve ... count the occurance of "words" in a text file
and output "some" results. The fastest is the winner ... but the actual
results aren't "that" important?
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> Or, alternatively, as I said before, if you (as the "client") remove
> such ambiguousness from the rules/specification.
I'm not actively participatig in the contest ... but I see this is a
major part of the contest.
In "the real world" programmers don't get exact specs of input / output
expected. Much has to be interpretered by the programmer.
In "the real world" if you waited for full specs from the client with no
ambiguities you would never start writing a program.
Ray Smith
http://rays-web.com
