additional language support?

jeffrey · Post by **jeffrey** » Wed Nov 22, 2006 4:03 am

I'm curious what the authors think of adding additional language support to this website? I love the idea of this website and I want to begin trying some of the puzzles. I'm willing to do them in c++, but my language of choice is objective caml. Ocaml is one of the functional programming languages and would increase the potential number of ways to solve the problems.

Currently there are procedural and objective programming paradigms available to us (I don't know about pascal, but my understanding is that it's not dissimilar from c), but ocaml would add a mixed environment where functional programming was an additional tool.

Ocaml is also available for a very wide variety of platforms.

http://caml.inria.fr/

I would be willing to help any way I can.

Post by **Carlos** » Wed Nov 22, 2006 7:07 pm

I think that issue has been touched too many times to make another explanation here, so I'll just say that no more languages will be added in the old system. For adding a new language to the new system, we'll need a kind of survey to ensure people will use it (I don't think more than 10 users will ever use ocaml, the effort doesn't worth it, at least in a development stage).

Links to some related issues:
http://online-judge.uva.es/board/viewtopic.php?t=11635

About particular case of Java compiler:
http://online-judge.uva.es/board/viewtopic.php?t=10228
http://online-judge.uva.es/board/viewtopic.php?t=11359