[mercury-users] Programming "contests".

[Joseph M. Dusio]

Hi,
	I like the programming "contests".  They provide concise
examples of Mercury's strengths.  I have had no trouble managing
the increase in messages.

Joe Dusio  <dusioj at norand.com>

Tyson Dowd wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> It appears that little Mercury programming "contests" are quite popular
> among at least some people on the list.
> 
> I think it's a great idea, and I would like to continue them in future,
> However, they can generate a fair bit of list traffic, so I would like
> to gauge the feeling of the list on the matter.
> 
> Do people feel this is an appropriate use of the list?  Is anyone very
> annoyed at the idea?  Would a standard heading (e.g. "contest:" or
> something) be useful so you can separate programming discussions from other
> discussions?
> 
> Also, I'd like to take some of the posted examples and put them in
> the samples directory of the Mercury distribution, along with some
> of the discussion.
> 
> Obviously I will ask permission and put the appropriate credits on the
> work, but does anyone see any problems with this?  I'd probably have to
> ask people what kind of copyright they want on the work (most of the
> stuff in samples is public domain or under the GNU GPL or something).
> It would have to be something compatible with the Mercury license for us
> to distribute it along with Mercury (GPL, LGPL, Public Domain, BSD-like,
> etc).
> 
> (If you're posting your programs to the mailing list, you might
> want to put a little copyright (or public domain) notice on them
> from the start, so that people known they can re-use the code directly
> from the web archives of the mailing list).
> 
> --
> Those who would give up essential liberty to purchase a little temporary
> safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.     - Benjamin Franklin
> 
> Tyson Dowd   <tyson at tyse.net>   http://tyse.net
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