Stories
Slash Boxes
Comments
NOTE: use Perl; is on undef hiatus. You can read content, but you can't post it. More info will be forthcoming forthcomingly.

All the Perl that's Practical to Extract and Report

use Perl Log In

Log In

[ Create a new account ]

davorg (18)

davorg
  dave@dave.org.uk
http://dave.org.uk/
Yahoo! ID: daveorguk (Add User, Send Message)

Hacker, author, trainer

Technorati Profile [technorati.com]

Journal of davorg (18)

Wednesday January 07, 2004
11:30 AM

BCS Programming Competition

[ #16695 ]

Every year the British Computer Society holds a programming competition[1] and this year they've been persuaded to include Perl on the list of allowed languages. I know this, as I've been asked to be a judge.

The web page says that this is the 20th year of the competition. This means that I took part in the first one in 1985. I remember it distinctly as it was the same day as Live Aid.

[1] It's a nasty frames-based web site, so I can't give a link to the relevant pages, but it's under "awards and events".


List all Journal entries
The Fine Print: The following comments are owned by whoever posted them. We are not responsible for them in any way.

BCS Programming Competition 4 Comments More | Login | Reply /

 Full
 Abbreviated
 Hidden
More | Login | Reply
Loading... please wait.
  • I also note that it seems very windows oriented ( previous competitions have required you to build a .dll ), and 2 of the languages it requires are Microsoft windows only ones.

    And no mention of perl..

    --

    @JAPH = qw(Hacker Perl Another Just);
    print reverse @JAPH;
    • I know. The letter I have states that Perl will be supported "on a trial basis". It's a bit difficult to see how that will work if Perl isn't listed as an option. I'll email them and find out what's going on. It may be that they were just waiting for responses from the Perl judges before adding it to the list.
  • It's a nasty frames-based web site, so I can't give a link to the relevant pages, but it's under "awards and events".

    Sounds like you to find out about Mozilla's "This Frame" item on the context menu--if you then select "View Frame Info" you can access the URL of the frame there. The "This Frame" menu also lets you open the frame in a new window or tab, or show only the selected frame.

    The page that deals with the competition is at http://www1.bcs.org.uk/homepages/932/ [bcs.org.uk].

    • Thanks, but I use Mozilla all the time and I'm well aware of its frame handling faciities.

      I didn't show the URL that you've given as that page is only one part of the Programming Competition site. There are a number of other pages with more information about it and the menu that lists them is in another frame. Your link only gives a small part of the big picture and no way to access the rest of it.

      Which is why I described it as a "nasty frames-based web site".
Stories, comments, journals, and other submissions on use Perl; are Copyright 1998-2006, their respective owners.