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Second Annual ICFP Programming Contest

Posted by Hemos on from the compte-with-each-other dept.

PsionV writes "The second annual ICFP Programming Contest begins September 2nd. For those of you who didn't participate in this last year, this is a contest where competitors enter programs written in any language which then compete tournament style against each other in a processing intensive task to possibly win money, books, bragging rights, and more. "

6 of 69 comments (clear)

  1. Re:That obfuscated Perl code contest... by John+Campbell · · Score: 2

    "Obfuscated Perl"? Isn't that redundant?

    Yeah, I know... it's possible to write good Perl... it's way too easy to write bad Perl, though. You should see the mess I inherited at work...

  2. Re:pre-written code? by Trepidity · · Score: 2

    So you mean nobody, prior to this contest, had implemented a program to play Pousse? I suppose it's an obscure enough game that it would be possible, I just would've expected nearly every game to have a least some sort of program playing it by now...

    However, it seems the contest ran quite well, so I'll stop complaining =) Good luck on this year's.

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  3. pre-written code? by Trepidity · · Score: 2

    I have a strange feeling that there will be somebody out there that has some pre-written code for whatever the challenge will be, that will only need slight modification. For example, last year's contest was playing pousse, and I'd be surprised if no pousse implementations had ever been written before. That'd leave the rest of us at a slight disadvantage.

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    10 PRINT CHR$(205.5+RND(1)); : GOTO 10
  4. Re:Poor Students by SEWilco · · Score: 2

    You can have skill and abilities without a degree. Or with one. All the entries should be in a single competition, as they were last year.

  5. Re:"Performance *may* matter." (in the judging!) by SEWilco · · Score: 2

    Last year a program had to respond within 30 seconds. If your algorithm is fast enough to respond easily within a time limit then performance is not much of an issue. Performance does matter if you and your program have to make an effort to respond within the time limit.

  6. "Performance *may* matter." (in the judging!) by Sun+Tzu · · Score: 2

    Hmmm... I don't like the sound of that.

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