[Icfp04-discuss] three liberal arts

[Andrey V. Stolyarov]

> I'll post my solution in the next e-mail, but first I have a
> question.  The contest had three parts: writing a simulator,
> writing a compiler into ant-code, and designing the ant.
> Which part was your favorite?  Sure, designing the ant was the
> official requirement, but which was your favorite?


Well, I definitely agree that writing simulators is just a
wastage of time. The task is straightforward, there's nothing to
learn from it. Just several hours of coding.

The contest would be more interesting if there was a ready
simulator provided by the organizers.



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Andrey Stolyarov a.k.a. Croco