D submission for c't programming contest gets special mention

[Denis Koroskin]

On Fri, 03 Oct 2008 08:22:35 +0400, Vladimir Panteleev  
<thecybershadow at gmail.com> wrote:

> Some time ago someone wrote to this newsgroup that the German magazine  
> c't was hosting a programming contest. I decided to participate using  
> the D language, and my submission got the 17th place. I could have done  
> a lot better, but due to poor time management on my behalf I left myself  
> only one week for the bulk of programming.
>
> Today a friend of mine found the article in the magazine and scanned it  
> for me:
>
> http://img119.imageshack.us/img119/1051/ctarticlepage1lq8.jpg
> http://img146.imageshack.us/img146/7448/ctarticlepage2kq8.jpg
>
> I can't post an exact translation as I don't speak German myself, but I  
> was told that the editors found the unique behavior of my bot - flying  
> around the screen while narrowly dodging obstacles - quite amusing to  
> watch :)
>
> The source code for the submissions can be downloaded here:
> http://www.heise.de/ct/creativ/08/02/ergebnisse/
>

Translate, anyone?