Cerulean

What? Why? I find using PHP unecessary. If language A lets me do everything I can do with language B, why should I waste time changing mindsets between the two? Hrmph.

edit - a couple of thoughts:
The amount of security issues with this are incredible, mind. You'd have to sandbox it and parse out any kind of malicious code, which probably isn't possible. You'd have to put limits on recursion, etc etc. It's a terribly large task.

Sane

Well yeah. I guess really the only plausable thing is if I recieved all the challenge outputs and handed out points accordingly. But that would soon become a task too big.

Maybe this idea won't work. o_o

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LegionZero

Couldn't a code validator be implemented like the one on the WC3 website, that would be a perfect way to validate the code and award points, and that would also eliminate the risk of malicious code, after that the entries that are not malicious and seem to work wold go to the panel of judges (or whatever), compile, verify that the program indeed does what it is supposed to do and elect a winner.

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Cerulean

The WC3 validator isn't a code validator - it's a markup validator. You can "validate" the syntax of the markup (or Python source) and in the case of the HTML validator even add some contextual validation, but really understanding what the source is doing is.. way out of scope.

LegionZero

Yes, you are quite right, it would be just as hard as writing an app that can deduce the semantical meaning of a phrase. But hey, it was just a thought.

'LegionZero goes to the corner and bows head down in shame'

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