Re: Mandelbrot Fractals Programming Contest from Apress

Ouch. Perl has to compete against Common Lisp for a number crunching exercise? That's going to make it tough. Plus the test seems way under specified. They don't mention how many iterations to run the algorithm. They don't mention if compile times are included ('cause you could certainly create a common lisp macro to do all the work at compile time). Oh, and you can pretty much guarentee that C will win the grand prize. Or am I misreading it? Are there three grand prizes? Overall the contest seems like quite a mess.

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Re^2: Mandelbrot Fractals Programming Contest from Apress by Anonymous Monk on Jul 25, 2005 at 00:27 UTC
It gets worse. Just take a look at the sample input file. Many regions don't even include the set and the fourth one in the file fails (assert (and (< left right) (< bottom top))). Mess is an understatement. I hope their real file is better, but this doesn't address the issue of how to deal with bogus data.	[reply]