Re:C++ Grandmaster Certification Programming Assignment 1
by CJefferson on Wednesday February 20, 2013 @12:11PM
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I am positive those 10,000 fall into two groups:
1) People who understand this is impossible, and are interested to see what they are actually going to do.
2) People who don't realise this is impossible.
Re:C++ Grandmaster Certification Programming Assignment 1
by bsaul on Wednesday February 20, 2013 @01:21PM
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Ok, you made me honestly curious. What makes you think writing a tokenizer in C++ is impossible ? I didn't see any deadline, but is it because of time ? They even provide some algorithmic hints on how to do it...
Re:C++ Grandmaster Certification Programming Assignment 1
by thwest on Wednesday February 20, 2013 @03:27PM
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The project aims to build not just the tokenizer, but a complete compiler and standard library. None of GCC, Clang, Microsoft or Intel can provide a complete, bug free C++11 implementation. If you hang out in freenode's ##c++, you'll see people finding new corner cases every day. It's reasonable to consider this project impossible for an individual.
Re:C++ Grandmaster Certification Programming Assignment 1
by CJefferson on Wednesday February 20, 2013 @01:30PM
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A tokenizer is very reasonable. I would even have believed a complete C compiler, although that is a huge undertaking. But C++ is, as far as I am aware, the hardest language to compile in popular use.
A few weeks ago the site said enrollments would close on February 15. On Feb 15 it said they would close "Very soon now." Now they close on March 15. That should indicate how few people are really falling for this.
Edit: hang on - they have a press release claiming they got 10,000 enrollments and enrollment has been extended due to "popular demand": http://www.cppgm.org/news.html. This is surreal.