Deadlock presentation outcome

[Bill Baxter]

Unknown W. Brackets wrote:
>> In the end, it turned out that the jury didn't like computer games 
>> very much... Maths doctors & professors == bad jury for a game 
>> programming team. So we scored 2nd, after a project which basically 
>> combined some GPS stuff thru bluetooth and Google Maps... Which, 
>> according to 80% of my univ mates was... ridiculous.
> 
> Don't feel bad.  I had the same experience - I wrote a game with a full 
> fledged scripting language built in, years ago when I was in high 
> school.  It was a lot of lines, and represented a lot of work.
> 
> I lost to a GPA calculator.  This was a program where you typed in your 
> grades and it told you your average.  It was like 200 lines or something 
> silly like that.

Wow!  That's a pretty impressive feat of software engineering to turn a 
5-line program into 200 lines!

--bb