Is there a contest with fame and money for good Ada programmers?
UNFORTUNATELY THE CONTEST DESCRIBED BELOW WAS CANCELLED. MAYBE A SIMILAR CONTEST WILL BE CREATED IN THE FUTURE. Yes, they should enter the Ada Lovelace Programming Contest sponsored by the Ada Resource Association (ARA). The Ada contest seeks to recognize the most readable, original, reusable, and clear working Ada programs. Like the Ada programming language, the contest is named in honor of the first programmer in history, Lady Ada Lovelace. Every three months, the ARA will pay US$ 750 to the best Ada code segment submitted. Submissions must be received by the 15th (midnight) of the “contest month” and the award will be announced at the end of the second month.
Yes, they should enter the Ada Lovelace Programming Contest sponsored by the Ada Resource Association (ARA). The Ada contest seeks to recognize the most readable, original, reusable, and clear working Ada programs. Like the Ada programming language, the contest is named in honor of the first programmer in history, Lady Ada Lovelace. Every three months, the ARA will pay US$ 750 to the best Ada code segment submitted. Submissions must be received by the 15th (midnight) of the “contest month” and the award will be announced at the end of the second month. A submission is made by emailing the source code to ara-contest@ocsystems.com The first contest closed December 15th, 1995. (The next contest month is March 1996.) The rules and guidelines of the contest are available from the Ada Contest WWW Home at http://lglwww.epfl.ch/Ada/Contest/announce.html This contest is open to all. Sharpen your designs, code, comments, and demos; show the world how good and unobfuscated your Ada code is, and w
