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ICFP 2003 Programming Contest Starts June 28th

Posted by timothy on from the warm-up-your-swedish dept.

mvw writes "The web pages for the ICFP 2003 programming contest are online! It starts Saturday, 28th June 0:00 GMT. As the time zone hints, this year it is organized in Sweden." From the rules page: "All programmers are invited to enter the contest, either individually or in teams. The contest offers direct, head-to-head comparison of language technology and programming skill. We have a range of prizes for the winners: cash awards, books, invitations to the conference for students, and, of course, unlimited bragging rights. The prizes will be awarded at ICFP 2003 in Uppsala this August."

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  1. Isn't this a month early? by FroMan · · Score: 3, Interesting

    I thought they usually had the contest late July and early August. I seem to remember last year not being able to look at the contest since it was my anniversery that week-end.

    Personlly I look forward to IOCCC, much more interesting competition. But that contest hasn't been open for nearly two years now. :-(

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  2. Speculation... by jjkivilu · · Score: 5, Interesting

    I wonder if the picture ("preview-fancy.jpg") on the front page is supposed to give us a small hint about what the task will concern? Something involving racing, like optimal route finding and intelligent vehicle steering/controlling?

  3. Re:Obligatory by PhilipMatarese · · Score: 4, Interesting

    the rules don't say what the max number of people we can have on a team is

    Team Slashdot?

  4. Re:Isn't this a month early? (reposted) by FroMan · · Score: 3, Interesting

    They do some incredible and brilliant things in the IOCCC, but I can't help thinking that deliberately obfuscating C is immoral somehow :P

    Some wise man is going to make a RPPC (Readable Perl Programming Contest) some day.

    I think obfusicatin C is a cool idea of a contest. Its fun to try and figure out what other programmers come up with. And its kind of fun to try an entry out.

    What I like about the ICFP is the lack of restrictions.

    Aw heck, in the IOCCC you can solve whatever problem you want, you have to use a specific language though.

    In ICFP you have to solve their specific problem with any language you want.

    Six of one, half a dozen of another. :-P

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  5. Acronym by cgrawls · · Score: 5, Informative

    ICFP stands for International Conference on Functional Programming. Neither the /. story nor the contest website make this clear.

    Also, interestingly, the contest allows any programming language to be entered, functional or not. Sounds like a challenge to the procedural and OO programmers out there :).