21 Jun
2004
21 Jun
'04
3:28 a.m.
"Iavor S. Diatchki"
one thing i don't like about programming contests, is that usually time is very limited, so often one ends up with terrible hacks that kind of work...
I'm not so sure - at least in earlier contests, when programs were submitted, they were fed a large variety of inputs, and a lot of entries were weeded out on correctness issues.
one might argue though, that "real programmers" are often faced with such situations.
Perhaps this changes when the submission consists of program output? -kzm -- If I haven't seen further, it is by standing in the footprints of giants