From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: (from weis@localhost) by pauillac.inria.fr (8.7.6/8.7.3) id OAA20597 for caml-redistribution; Tue, 31 Aug 1999 14:17:41 +0200 (MET DST) Received: from concorde.inria.fr (concorde.inria.fr [192.93.2.39]) by pauillac.inria.fr (8.7.6/8.7.3) with ESMTP id VAA00821 for ; Mon, 30 Aug 1999 21:19:18 +0200 (MET DST) Received: from pauillac.inria.fr (pauillac.inria.fr [128.93.11.35]) by concorde.inria.fr (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id VAA29790; Mon, 30 Aug 1999 21:19:16 +0200 (MET DST) Received: (from xleroy@localhost) by pauillac.inria.fr (8.7.6/8.7.3) id VAA04308; Mon, 30 Aug 1999 21:19:15 +0200 (MET DST) Message-ID: <19990830211915.15781@pauillac.inria.fr> Date: Mon, 30 Aug 1999 21:19:15 +0200 From: Xavier Leroy To: caml-list@inria.fr Subject: ICFP programming contest Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Mailer: Mutt 0.89.1 Sender: weis Apologies for the noise on this mailing list, but I'd like to inform or remind all of you of the upcoming programming contest that will be held as part of the International Conference on Functional Programming. The contest starts on Sept 2nd. A programming challenge will be posted, and participants have 72 hours to submit a program to the contest judges. More info is available at http://www.cs.virginia.edu/~jks6b/icfp/ While the contest is open to any programming language, it is held as part of a functional programming conference, and the F.P. community tends to view it as a measure of how well functional languages can compete when both quick development and performance of the program matter. Last year, a team at École Normale Supérieure ranked second with a program written in OCaml, with the first prize going to a Cilk program (Cilk is C + parallel operators), and the jury's prize to a J (a dialect of APL) program. It would be great if we could do as well this year. Winners get fame, money, free books, and "unlimited bragging rights" -- aren't you tempted? Happy hacking, - Xavier Leroy