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 SAA19413 for caml-red; Tue, 22 Aug 2000 18:17:56 +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 LAA12910 for ; Tue, 22 Aug 2000 11:56:49 +0200 (MET DST) Received: from pauillac.inria.fr (pauillac.inria.fr [128.93.11.35]) by concorde.inria.fr (8.10.0/8.10.0) with ESMTP id e7M9ufT09264; Tue, 22 Aug 2000 11:56:41 +0200 (MET DST) Received: (from xleroy@localhost) by pauillac.inria.fr (8.7.6/8.7.3) id LAA11332; Tue, 22 Aug 2000 11:56:40 +0200 (MET DST) Message-ID: <20000822115640.46767@pauillac.inria.fr> Date: Tue, 22 Aug 2000 11:56:40 +0200 From: Xavier Leroy To: Julian Assange , caml-list@inria.fr Subject: Re: ICFP'00 programming contest References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.89.1 In-Reply-To: ; from Julian Assange on Tue, Aug 22, 2000 at 07:01:24PM +1000 Sender: weis@pauillac.inria.fr > While the domain of the challenge task has not been revealed, > presuming it's one well-suited to O'caml does anyone want enter an > O'caml team? Given that ICFP'{98,99} first places were won by domain > experts (although not necessarily the other winning categories!), a > good strategy seems to be putting together a team with a large number > of members on the hope that some of them will happen to be experts in > the domain of the challege. That's one strategy. So far, teams have been relatively small and composed of members of the same institution -- it helps to be able to work in the same room! But maybe a big, distributed team can also do well. At any rate, I encourage everyone to participate in the challenge (and use OCaml for it, of course). Here is the URL for this year's contest: http://www.cs.cornell.edu/icfp/ Teams must register in advance, it seems. > Will Inria be entering this year? Yes, of course! - Xavier Leroy