Comment by brookst
10 hours ago
Sure, I agree, and it’s already figured out. The demoscene has been around for decades. That’s real programming.
But I think you’re on to something important: framing programming as a competition of intrinsic skill where rules are necessary to equalize. That’s certainly true in some cases, and more power to those who enjoy it.
I guess I’m just more of a product guy these days, where the equalizer is the market and the consumers rather than the implementation methodology.
You never went to a programming competition in school? None of what was said is novel, it’s all been around forever, the tricky bit is the regurgitation software mucking everything up.
Not that it’s about me, but I was doing programming competitions 25 years ago, half of which were on paper with no keyboard allowed.