From: paul@...
Date: 2002-09-06T22:37:38+09:00
Subject: Re: Ruby 10'th most popular ICFP contest language

On Fri, 6 Sep 2002, Anders Selander wrote:

> On Fri, Sep 06, 2002 at 07:50:48AM +0900, paul@prescod.net wrote:
> > Well it is supposed to be a functional programming contest. It's amazing
> > that C++ fares so well! Caml and Haskell are both functional programming
> > languages.
>
> Nope, it is supposed to be a programming contest for every language, hosted
> by the functional community, to try to prove functional languages to be the
> overall best choice.

So then it is no surprise if there is a bias towards the use of functional
languages!

 Paul Prescod