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wisfaq
May '13

Take for example:
12914. Totient Extreme Problem code: DCEPCA03 spoj.com/problems/DCEPCA03/79
The language restrictions seem unnecessary for this problem.
Although I asked a week ago to extend it to all languages there has been no reaction.
I'm afraid the problem setter doesn't visit his problem any more (or SPOJ at all)
Is it possible for the admins to do anything about it?

In general I think there are quite a few problems with unnecessary language restrictions.
Is it possible to do something about that?

Edit (29-12-2013)
More languages have been added to spoj.com/problems/DCEPCA03/79
So this one doesn't qualify any more.

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francky
Jun '13

I fully agree with your remark.

Language restrictions should be motivated when applied and they should be some few exceptions in problem set.
I often ask to open to all languages, some psetters don't care about those requests.
EB members can't change the language selection ; admin can.

The only thing I can propose is to happen at this thread some messages :

Please, no message like : copy_of_a_precedent and "+1".

After some amount of messages we can write to admin who will treat the whole train, and edit messages with something like : "done" or "sorry but language restrictions are justified here" (if need).

I hope this democratic survey/method and admin final answer will satisfy everybody, and make an as quick as possible answer to this old question.

I hope psetter will allow more languages in the future.

wisfaq
Jun '13

Thanks for replying.
I take it that my first post is clear enough.

Could you make this a sticky topic?
Edit(Francky) : Done.

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campos20
Jan '14

I agree with your point of view. In one hand, this can be good for pushing people to learn. I, for example, started learning C after solving some problems in Python and realizing that I could not submit it. The language C is the most common in SPOJ and problems that allow C usually won't push to much people to learn, but just fit to they background knowledge.

Sometimes, after solving a few problems, I got this feeling that I'm doing some programmer's job (specially in ad-hoc problems with language restriction). The feeling is that the problem setter needs the solution in a specific language (too much "conspiracy theory" from my part?).

By the way

spoj.com/problems/TCOUNT2/7

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goldenwings
Aug '14

Is there a chance to improve the c# compiler its old enough (2.0) some problems are impossible to solve with , As if the problem input is large enough such as ARITH1 problem which is 500 digit , the Big Integers structure were implemented later on , for that particular problem i used arrays which made the solution very long and caused TLE, If the c# compiler is upgraded to support System.Numeric it would help us a lot in solving such problems in c#, languages such as java and python has big integers implemented by default .

leppyr64
Aug '14

I agree that the C# compiler should be updated. However, the majority of ARITH solvers used C or C++ to solve the problem so you were not at a disadvantage.

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