[Lazarus] IOI: Lazarus and Free Pascal

[Florian Klaempfl]

Nikolay Nikolov schrieb:
> On 08/16/2009 08:12 PM, Den Jean wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> International Olympiad in Informatics
>> allows only c++ and free pascal.
>>
>> Provided editors : ... lazarus ...
>>
>> http://www.ioi2009.org/index.jsp;jsessionid=F84941DF0A0EE4138BC2E44BA6DBE5EB?ln=2&id=361
>>
>>
>>    
> I was on the Host Technical Committee:
> 
> http://www.ioi2009.org/index.jsp?id=408&ln=2
> 
> where I helped with the Pascal support (install & configuration of fpc
> and lazarus on the contest linux distro, etc.). 

Thank you for your work to promote FPC :)

> I also did a Pascal to C
> translation of one of the authors' solutions of one of the hardest tasks
> in order to help determine the time limits for the task, so that it is
> possible to score 100 points on the task with Pascal. Surprisingly, the
> Pascal program ran exactly as fast as the C program (the difference was
> really really minimal and it was slightly slower on some tests, but
> slightly faster on others).
> 
> And here's the kicker: the winner - Henadzi Karatkevich (who is only
> 14-years old!!!) from Belarus used Pascal to solve the tasks!

Not in the news though ;(
> 
> http://news.slashdot.org/story/09/08/15/1523255/14-Year-Old-Wins-International-Programming-Contest?from=rss