Cube Antics

Here’s my take on the Google Go programming language Issue 9 fiasco.

The Background

You know that awesome new programming language Google is coming out with called Go? It turns out that Francis McCabe has already created a programming language called Go! almost 5 years ago. In fact, he even wrote a book about it that was published in February of 2007 (in addition to several articles).

Enter Issue 9

So, like any responsible member of the programming community, Francis opened up an issue in the Go issue tracking…

In case you didn’t get the memo. Today was the official Qualification Round for Google’s Code Jam where quick-witted programmers from all over the world put their programming skills to the test by answering some pretty difficult algorithmic questions. This round had 3 questions, each question had a small and a large data set each worth 10 and 23 points respectively giving a total of 99 possible points. In order to move from the Qualification Round to Round 1 of Code…