9th Annual ICFP Programming Contest Gears Up

Posted by ryuzaki0 on Monday July 3, 2006 @09:24AM from the one-up-manship dept.

Tom7 writes "This year's ICFP Programming Contest is now open for early registration. This is an annual open competition in which hundreds of teams vie to complete a 3-day programming task over the internet. The organizers have promised that this year's contest will be "very different from past competitions" and will have a theme of "computational archaeolinguistics." In addition to prize money, the winner's programming language is declared the "programming language of choice for discriminating hackers;" previous winners have used Cilk, Haskell, C++ and O'Caml. How will your favorite language fare?"

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Re:Sarcasm! by try_anything · 2006-07-04 11:51 · Score: 2, Informative

Teams using Dylan, a dynamic language based on Common Lisp, have done very well in the ICFP.

One reason that Haskell and O'Caml have done very well is they are good vehicles for research into typing, hence very popular in theoretical CS. I bet that's the primary relevance of static vs. dynamic typing. I think if the contest existed twenty years ago, there would have been far more Lisp winners than C and Pascal winners.