From: memius
Subject: submitting lisp programs to programming-challenges.com
Date: 
Message-ID: <1166866712.999894.271250@42g2000cwt.googlegroups.com>
i would like to go though 'programming challenges', by skiena &
revilla, but i want to do the challenges in lisp.

i'm thinking of compiling my lisp programs to c code to submit them
(the web page only accepts c, c++ or java code).  is clicc a good tool
for this?

perhaps there is a better way that i have overlooked?
From: Mark Tarver
Subject: Re: submitting lisp programs to programming-challenges.com
Date: 
Message-ID: <1166888066.679271.264590@f1g2000cwa.googlegroups.com>
memius wrote:
> i would like to go though 'programming challenges', by skiena &
> revilla, but i want to do the challenges in lisp.
>
> i'm thinking of compiling my lisp programs to c code to submit them
> (the web page only accepts c, c++ or java code).  is clicc a good tool
> for this?
>
> perhaps there is a better way that i have overlooked?

Possibly find another contest  - one with a broader and more
understanding view of what programming can be like.

Mark
From: memius
Subject: Re: submitting lisp programs to programming-challenges.com
Date: 
Message-ID: <1166948088.490368.145320@48g2000cwx.googlegroups.com>
mark: do you have any in mind?
From: Mark Tarver
Subject: Re: submitting lisp programs to programming-challenges.com
Date: 
Message-ID: <1166964182.283480.155880@i12g2000cwa.googlegroups.com>
memius wrote:
> mark: do you have any in mind?

Try entering 'programming contests 2007' to Google - you get a long
list.

Programming contests that stipulate that you have to use Java or C++
are the intellectual equivalent of the sack race.   I cannot take any
contest
seriously that makes such a stipulation.

ICFP runs a functional programming contest for functional programmers
though it seems to be team oriented.

Mark
From: Pascal Bourguignon
Subject: Re: submitting lisp programs to programming-challenges.com
Date: 
Message-ID: <8764c22581.fsf@thalassa.informatimago.com>
"memius" <········@gmail.com> writes:

> i would like to go though 'programming challenges', by skiena &
> revilla, but i want to do the challenges in lisp.
>
> i'm thinking of compiling my lisp programs to c code to submit them
> (the web page only accepts c, c++ or java code).  is clicc a good tool
> for this?

It probably won't be practical, because of clicc libraries...
Isn't there program size limits?


> perhaps there is a better way that i have overlooked?

Yes, there's a better way: http://www.spoj.pl
The Sphere Online Judge accepts programs in gcl and clisp.


-- 
__Pascal Bourguignon__                     http://www.informatimago.com/

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From: furious_joe
Subject: Re: submitting lisp programs to programming-challenges.com
Date: 
Message-ID: <emlbro$orq$2@aioe.org>
memius wrote:
> i would like to go though 'programming challenges', by skiena &
> revilla, but i want to do the challenges in lisp.
> 
> i'm thinking of compiling my lisp programs to c code to submit them
> (the web page only accepts c, c++ or java code).  is clicc a good tool
> for this?
> 
> perhaps there is a better way that i have overlooked?
> 
This might not be very good for speed or efficiency, much better to 
write in c; but I don't know how effective the compilers are. 
Translating lisp into c would be like how you can write fortran in any 
language.
comp.lang.lisp / 2006 / dec