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Subject: Re: Programming contest: suggestions?
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John Meyer wrote:
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> Hi, I'm set to run a programming contest in a few weeks and I was wondering
> if any of you have any suggestions on how to run it.   I use C/C++, Pascal,
> QBASIC, and Visual Basic, and the idea is I give them an idea for a
> program, and the best one wins.  What criteria should I use, and how should
> I promote it.


This sounds like a great idea.  One thing I would do is create a contest
where different parts of each language are tested against each other. 
For example, a program where classes would help a lot, but some parts of
PASCAL (I don't program in it) are faster.  You could then implement an
FPS counter and see which implementation of the same graphix program ran
fastest.  Nothin' primitive, though, like lines and stuff.