Brilliant! Incredible! Amazing! I don't know what else to say, I hope ACM will do the same ...

Yes, i'ts so frustrating when you can't write solutions in ACM using your best known programming language...

leledumbo wrote

Brilliant! Incredible! Amazing! I don't know what else to say, I hope ACM will do the same ...

Žilvinas Ledas wrote

Yes, i'ts so frustrating when you can't write solutions in ACM using your best known programming language...

Yeah, that sucks, I know. My guess is that since ACM is sponsored by IBM, they want to push their Eclipse and Java crap and Pascal just simply doesn't sit well with their agenda. Either that, or they're just too lazy to support another language. Google Code Jam, for example, allows coding in any programming language:

http://code.google.com/codejam/
http://code.google.com/codejam/rules.html

"Environment

You can use any programming language to solve the problems, using any development environment or text editor, as long as the compiler or interpreter you used for that language is freely available and easy to download and use. Time-limited trials for compilers and interpreters are disallowed. Visual Studio is acceptable as a compiler, since there's a free version of (almost the same) compiler available, Visual Studio Express. Google reserves the right to make further exceptions on a case-by-case basis."