On Tue, 1 May 2001 rob@jam.rr.com wrote:
We allow people to provide solutions to ACM Programming Contest problems, which must be submitted in other languages such as Perl and C when submitting to the contest judges. We do not judge the submissions, but post them for the world to see. When I contacted the people behind the ACM site, I was told that they were delighted to hear about it and if we could provide a Python judge (which I took to mean software similar to that which they already use), they would be willing to add Python to the list of possible submission languages.
I am extremely excited to hear about this. I think Python should be one of the permitted languages (and it would instantly clean all the other teams' clocks, if i do say so myself). I'm familiar with the programming contest because i was on the Waterloo team a few years ago. We won, but we had a *major* advantage in that we chose to use vi and cc rather than Microsoft Visual C++, and i'm sure that if we'd had Python we would have done even better. Can you put me in touch with your ACM contact? I would like to make this happen. Thanks! -- ?!ng