From: MikkelFJ <mikkelfj-anti-spam@...>
Date: 2002-08-10T07:04:57+09:00
Subject: ICFP programming contest

It's announced in comp.lang.functional.

The Fifth Annual

         ICFP PROGRAMMING CONTEST

      August 30 - September 2, 2002

      http://icfpcontest.cse.ogi.edu/

There's a comment on dynamic languages - perhaps that's a hint for Ruby?

Mikkel


----- Original Message -----
From: "Andreas Bogk" <andreas@andreas.org>
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Sent: Thursday, August 08, 2002 3:41 PM
Subject: Re: ICFP 2002 Programming Contest


> diatchki@cse.ogi.edu (Iavor Diatchki) writes:
>
> > Convinced your favorite programming language provides unbeatable
> > productivity?  Convinced you and your friends are world-class
programmers?
>
> The Dylan team was second last year, and we won official bragging
> rights.[0]  The winner used Haskell, so we were the top scoring users of
> a dynamic programming language.
>
> Results of last year are here:
>
>   http://cristal.inria.fr/ICFP2001/prog-contest/
>
> Our report is here:
>
>   http://www.hoult.org/~bruce/dylan-hackers.html
>
> It was really a lot of fun to participate, and we hope to see
> challenging opponents this year.
>
> Andreas
>
> [0] ACM says: "Dylan is a fine programming tool for many applications."
>
> --
> "In my eyes it is never a crime to steal knowledge. It is a good
> theft. The pirate of knowledge is a good pirate."
>                                                        (Michel Serres)
>