When the same person designs the programming language and the contest to "prove" it's the best, the contest is likely to prove that his programming language is the best.
Ok. Now let's explore (or rather, return to) the question of whether that happened in this case.
Since I was aware people would make this type of criticism when I proposed the challenge, I made a conscious effort to make the problem very generic-- in fact to be the simplest stateful web app I could think of. In your opinion, did I succeed? Is it a simple, generic problem to ask for input on one page and display it on the next? Or is this a complex problem that requires unusual, Arc-specific functionality to solve?
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When the same person designs the programming language and the contest to "prove" it's the best, the contest is likely to prove that his programming language is the best.
Ok. Now let's explore (or rather, return to) the question of whether that happened in this case.
Since I was aware people would make this type of criticism when I proposed the challenge, I made a conscious effort to make the problem very generic-- in fact to be the simplest stateful web app I could think of. In your opinion, did I succeed? Is it a simple, generic problem to ask for input on one page and display it on the next? Or is this a complex problem that requires unusual, Arc-specific functionality to solve?