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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?"

3 of 252 comments (clear)

  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.

  2. 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 ?

    --
    Jesus was all right but his disciples were thick and ordinary. -John Lennon
  3. "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