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ICFP 2002 Contest Winners Announced

Posted by timothy on from the coffee-bean-laurels-would-be-appropriate dept.

Georgwe Russell writes "The Winners have been announced at the official web site. Looks like OCaml and functional programming have won again, with the 3 member TAPLAS team. There is somewhat of an upset, though. Second place goes to 3-member team Radical TOO, whose entry was written in C! In the lightning round, the virtues of Python as a quick prototyping language were shown in the lightning division's winning entry by the OaSys one-man team. Does the skill of the programmer prevail over the limitations of the language and paradigm used, or is C nearly as good a language as OCaml?"

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  1. I guess I'm not a real geek afterall by mao+che+minh · · Score: 4, Funny

    I have no clue what the hell any of this is about.

    1. Re:I guess I'm not a real geek afterall by joyoflinux · · Score: 2, Funny

      Well, Oasis is that thing in the desert, and OCaml must be a camel on the oasis? That sounds right...

  2. Egads... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Funny

    Does anyone else find it funny that this thread about whether or not language matters is rife with spelling and grammar errors?

    (And yeah, I'm sure that I have made a few erros as well)

  3. Nope, you're just a retard. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    What do you mean by "finally"? Is there some compelling reason those stupid fucks should get press here?

  4. What's this? by gmhowell · · Score: 5, Funny

    whose entry was written in C!

    I was just getting used to C#, now we are added C! ?

    How is that pronounced? 'see bang'?

    How is it different from plain C ?

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    Jesus was all right but his disciples were thick and ordinary. -John Lennon
    1. Re:What's this? by davidstrauss · · Score: 2, Funny

      It's pronounced with a simultaneous click of the tongue, as in "!Kung," the nomadic group indiginous to Africa.

  5. Re:Thinking in OCaml by Tablizer · · Score: 2, Funny

    I learned OCaml when I had pneumonia

    That's about what it takes to put one in the frame of mind for it :-)

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    Table-ized A.I.
  6. Well, solaris is written in C++ by autopr0n · · Score: 3, Funny

    but besides that, the core of the OS dosn't need to be very big, so you really can check everything.

    A huge program in C++ will probably have tons of buffer overflows to exploit. A Large Java program will have ZERO overflows.

    It's like comparing a hand grenade to an orange. Both can be handled safely, but an orange is just not going to blow up, no matter what you do, while the hand grenade has an increasing chance of exploding the more you fiddle with it.

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    autopr0n is like, down and stuff.
  7. "Functional programming wins again" by ari_j · · Score: 5, Funny

    ...functional programming wins again...

    Of course it does, you idiot. ICFP stands for International Conference on Functional Programming