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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."

2 of 33 comments (clear)

  1. 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?

  2. 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 :).