Thus, students are less satisfied with them. The compilers also do not enable use of programming problems that require use of larger amounts of memory, thus removing a rich set of problems from the programming contest environment. Furthermore, some students are now much more attracted to operating systems like Linux. These systems often exhibit better behavior when running erroneous programs. The marketplace has other, better compilers, most of which are dramatically more expensive and thus undesirable for our widespread audience.
Updates alone can be a large expense for a country with thousands of classrooms.
Most recommendations will be presented separately. At that time, certain compilers were quickly converging on stability but no report could be generated until that convergence occurred. The Free Pascal compiler is now able to compile and run programs like those of the contests. This is encouraging. Editing and interactive compiling work fine.