12:38:20mdhughesI do like that the AOC challenges test a lot of things you actually do in data processing code. Not everyone will ever write DP, but it's a useful skill.
13:00:14sham1AOC challenges are nice in that they really force one to think about things like the graphs underlying it all
13:00:48wasamasaI dunno, there's like two or three challenges of that kind every year
13:09:13mdhughesI've done a couple AOCs and some of Project Euler, mostly to make myself get better at some language I want to work on. They don't come up all that often.
13:38:49craniumWhat is data processing code? (and what is non-data-processing code?)
13:40:01Lycurgus'data processing' is an old term for "IT"
13:40:21Lycurgusit carries a sense, connotation of the prosaic, commercial, and dull
15:05:53mdhughesThat's not the sense I learned, DP is solving numerical or data problems. Not databases, usually, not "big data"/NN/AI, but things like payrolls, taxes, scientific data. Stuff that actually matters.
15:08:19mdhughesYou can do DP perfectly well in lisps; Scheme has a nice numeric system and it's often fast enough to get thru a long data set.