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4:13:20
margaritamike
Anyone feel like bribing the owners of Timus online judge, Kattis online judge, or Codeforces to include SBCL in their list of supported languages? :p
4:13:55
margaritamike
I wonder, really though, what it would take to get languages support added to one of those sites.
8:52:08
SaganMan
I know this is not relevant to lisp but this is just too fascinating. You all should read this. It's a new way to look into origins of life. https://www.quantamagazine.org/a-new-thermodynamics-theory-of-the-origin-of-life-20140122/
9:00:30
X-Scale
margaritamike: there're some active people on ##algorithms participating in those online judges
12:55:07
margaritamike
luis X-Scale: The thing is that those existing judges which do support SBCL only do so to a very limited extent. SBCL is not supported for even a majority of the problems on the judges, for example. Additionally, the ones I've listed -- Kattis, Timus, Codeforces -- are the judges which really have some of the highest quality problems to solve.
12:58:48
margaritamike
If I were a wealthy person, I would try to get those online judges to support SBCL, to give more people a platform to practice using the language on high quality problems that judge your solution, especially the youth. I would then likely try to campaign very hard to get the language added as an optical language to compete with in the ioi or the icpc, but that would be much harder (maybe not worth the effort idk).
13:00:20
margaritamike
Having SBCL on those judges would be so beneficial, though. It benefits the communities of the languages it supports so much imo.
13:01:51
margaritamike
Still trying though. I've emailed Kattis, recently, and posted on the Timus forum (may email them as well). Planning to try to post on Codeforces forum as well.