Won a programming contest using D - Thank you for the tool!

[Vladimir Panteleev via Digitalmars-d]

On Monday, 18 August 2014 at 00:10:21 UTC, Ivan Kazmenko wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I just won a three-month-long programming contest (Al 
> Zimmermann's Programming Contest - Alphabet City) using the D 
> programming language as my main tool.  I want to share my 
> happiness, and express my deep gratitude, to the people who 
> work on this tool.  You are a part of what made this a pleasant 
> and educative experience.  Thank you!
>
> The contest is basically about writing a program that plays a 
> solitaire version of Scrabble given a fixed order in which 
> tiles come to the rack.
>
> Links for the interested:
> Contest homepage: http://azspcs.net/Contest/AlphabetCity
> My contest program, now on GitHub: 
> https://github.com/GassaFM/alphabet-city/
> A technical report draft: 
> http://acm.math.spbu.ru/~gassa/az/alphabet-city/technical-report.html

Cool! Congratulations!

Many years ago I wrote a bot in D which had to play Asteroids for 
a contest. Unfortunately, because of procrastination I only got 
17th place :) But I did get a special mention.