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ICFP 2004 Programming Contest Results

Posted by timothy on from the smaller-bikinis dept.

jnagra writes "The results of the 2004 ICFP Programming Contest have been announced. First place is to a program in Haskell, second place is to a program in C++, and the judges' prize is to a program in OCaml. The ICFP contest is an annual contest to promote functional languages (although programs in any language are accepted) and bestows on the winners unlimited bragging rights."

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  1. "Already?" by Lucas+Membrane · · Score: 2, Insightful

    These guys built their ant-building and testing system and made their great ants in 3 days! And they didn't see the competition to figure out how to beat it. Three months later some non-winners finally come up with something that can stop them, and that's "already"?

  2. Re:Lisp results not very impressive by John+Meacham · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Lisp's advantages are in a large part due to the general advantages of functional programming. Modern functional languages such as Ocaml or Haskell, have all those advantages plus 30 years or so of advances in type theory under their belt.

    One of the main advantages lisp has over languages such as haskell and ocaml is in self-modifying code, since in lisp, programs are data and it has dynamic typing. This feature probably just has not been useful in recent tasks.

    The winning place entry, used haskell to implement a domain specific langugae via a monadic combinator library, something Haskell excels at, so they were definitly using the languages strengths.

    Programming Haskell is truly a transcendent experience.

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