In article <hmdlc0$oc...@news.eternal-september.org>, Martin P. Hellwig <martin.hell...@dcuktec.org> wrote: >On 02/28/10 11:05, Stefan Behnel wrote: >> Steven D'Aprano, 28.02.2010 09:48: >>> There ought to be some kind of competition for the least efficient >>> solution to programming problems >> >> That wouldn't be very interesting. You could just write a code generator >> that spits out tons of garbage code including a line that solves the >> problem, and then let it execute the code afterwards. That beast would >> always win. >> >> Stefan >> >Well that would be an obvious rule that garbage code that does not >contribute to the end result (ie can be taken out without affecting the >end result) would not be allowed. Enforcing the rule is another beast >though, but I would leave that to the competition.
Thinking of the international obfuscated c contest (iocc). It is easy to make a mess of a program using the preprocessor. It is also easy to preprocess then prettyprint the program. If the result is not obfuscated, it impresses nobody. Likewise the judges would think nothing of a program with garbage, and would rate it low, so such rule is unnecessary. > >Though the idea of a code generator is solid, but instead of generating >garbage, produces a virtual machine that implements a generator that >produces a virtual machine, etc. etc. That was actually done by Lennart Benschop. He made a Forth program run by an interpreter written in C. Although Forthers thought it was straightforward comprehensible code, it was a winner in the iocc. > >-- >mph Groetjes Albert -- -- Albert van der Horst, UTRECHT,THE NETHERLANDS Economic growth -- being exponential -- ultimately falters. alb...@spe&ar&c.xs4all.nl &=n http://home.hccnet.nl/a.w.m.van.der.horst -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
