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While I'm a fan of the ICFP, I do feel as if the questions are a bit too full of themselves (for lack of a better term). While I'm sure they are trying to remo
by kenjackson 12y ago
While I'm a fan of the ICFP, I do feel as if the questions are a bit too full of themselves (for lack of a better term).
While I'm sure they are trying to remove ambiguity, but the way they are couched and their length make them a lot less approachable than they should be. I feel like in about 1/10 the wording and narrative complexity they could create an equally interesting programming challenge.
- clamprecht 12y agoI agree, but I think that's part of the challenge - boiling down the problem to its essentials, and ignoring the unnecessary stuff.
- drdaeman 12y agoNo me, nothing beats ICFPC'07 (http://save-endo.cs.uu.nl/ http://save-endo.cs.uu.nl/) The whole task was just formulated as "save Endo". A spec of Fuun DNA (a virtual machine), Endo's DNA and a two pictures were provided. That's about all contestants were told. Then, we had to discover Endo's DNA contained loads of fun things inside. Oh, ICFPC'06 was incredibly cool, too, but I didn't participated at that time and only took the task years after that. Don't want to sound whining but other years are more conventional (a complex, but mostly well-defined task) so less fun in my opinion.