[Icfp04-discuss] Getting results

[Peter Fröhlich]

On Monday, Jun 7, 2004, at 22:06 US/Pacific, Benjamin Pierce wrote:

> Yes, we'd really like to keep the relative performance of the various 
> teams'
> entries secret until the official announcement of winners at ICFP.

So I assume the winners know before everyone else that they won? Just 
checking proper preconditions... :-)

> Glad to hear people enjoyed the contest!

It was great! I don't think our stuff stands a chance, but it was 
amazing to see what 2.5 people can get together in about 2.5 days. I 
hope we'll be able to maintain our stuff (although it's not the 
best-looking GUI simulator, and slow at that). Makes for a nice 
example. Maybe we'll actually rewrite the core in C or something else 
that's easy to interface with Python.

Actually, I am seriously thinking about using this project in a course 
next Fall: Start students out writing ants by hand, and get them so mad 
at this that they will develop more and more tools over the quarter. 
:-) Anyone have any ideas as to whether that's a good or a bad idea? 
It's a "Software Construction" course, emphasis on OO design and 
development tools like profilers, debuggers, automated testing, etc.

Thanks again,
Peter
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