D submission for c't programming contest gets special mention

[Sönke Ludwig]

Vladimir Panteleev schrieb:
> 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/
> 

Nice one! (Coincidentially I've seen this magazine with exactly this 
page open lying on a table at my fathers house...)

Approximate translation:

[...]

In the table which was published in the internet, records of all matches 
can be found for watching and downloading [1]. Apart from the winners, 
the entry of Vladimir Panteleev, programmed in D, is worth taking a 
look: It rushes the whole five minutes with full throttle through the 
asteroid field without getting destroyed a single time - top mark for 
entertainment but in points only place 17.

[...]

[Mentions that some of the participants have disassembled the original 
game code and rewritten the game logic in general, as well as the random 
number generator in particular.]

[...]

Leadfoot Pantelev belongs to those who understand randomness too, as 
does Gunnar Fock, who lies at the end of the table with 2070 points, but 
has been a hot candidate for the second place during the preliminary 
rounds with 127660 points. [...]