Re: IBM Cloud Challenge.

[1nickt]

I wonder what it says about the whole thing that their content hasn't apparently passed through a proof-reading process.

For most developers it is a case of when not if they will need to deve
+lop ...

But how to get starting something ...

we will announce a winner, confirming upon one of you the honour and g
+lory ...

... the honour and glory of raising the first IBM Bluemix Programming 
+Competition

I mean, I'm sure the blurb was written by a register.co.uk hack, not an IBM hacker, but still!

Anyhow, you can submit any URLs and files, and it's not required to register for BlueMix to submit a solution (I tested), so BrowserUK I say you go for it and send them perl programs that may be disallowed, but not without embarrassing the rest of the field.

Looking at the rules closely, you get 60 seconds for your program to produce as many answers as possible, so creating enough sample data to profile your solution will itself be a bit of a task.

[BrowserUk]

BrowserUK I say you go for it and send them perl programs that may be disallowed, ... Looking at the rules closely, you get 60 seconds for your program to produce as many answers as possible

We read the rules differently. My reading is that the code will be run under the bluemix environment; and automated. Thus

1. Any Perl code submitted would simply fail to run and be discarded.
2. The 60 seconds is a hard time limit.

   If your program fails to produce the required output* within that time; your program will be aborted and any results summarily discarded.

   I expect that the input file will be of fixed size and relatively small; so for all but the most ardent GP solution to problem 2, the run times for most correct solutions will be a matter of milliseconds.

*From the specificity of the output formatting requirements I suspect that the pass/fail criteria will be judged by a simple text compare of the actual output against the expected.

Given the lack of interest in this thread; I lost interest also.