Allowed languages?
C, C++, Java, Lua
Forbidden Languages: Java, C#, everything that basically a librarycall in disguise and therefore cheating.
The task?
Alway setup by the winner of the round. He might be utterly ignored, if he asks people to produce big things for the bin. The Challenge is to produce something neat, something fast, something elegant, bonus if it has comments in it (would help some who dont know all the C-trickery of old). Remember that people dont read code because it is such fun, so if you wanna handle all the exceptions thats nice for you, but do it elsewhere - and cut.
If the winner doesent come up with a task, the second place gets the call.
The vote. After everyone who has delivered, delivered, everyone is allowed to vote, on one post (OPviciously not on yourself). Only votes of people who deliverd count. The winner is named. He gets it all.
The Prick.. ahem.. the price is handed over (which consists of a trophy.jpg and a e-penis that long, that local firemen will lend it for practicing purposes (you are the owner of that endless pink waterhose in the garden?)
The Task is to write a function that multiplies two mxn-matrices as efficient as possible.
Two Weeks time.
Competition ends on the 16 March, at 21:00 o clock. May the better performer succeed, and all the others forever fall silent in his presence.
I know, that You know.. its a waste of time, and all the others will tell you the same- but if this really gets going, and they all show up with something- so what bad can it do to sharpen the knife, and show everyone what a bleeding edge is?