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 UAA26787 for caml-red; Thu, 31 Aug 2000 20:46:18 +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 LAA14875 for ; Thu, 31 Aug 2000 11:37:40 +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 e7V9bR908972; Thu, 31 Aug 2000 11:37:27 +0200 (MET DST) Received: (from xleroy@localhost) by pauillac.inria.fr (8.7.6/8.7.3) id LAA09700; Thu, 31 Aug 2000 11:37:26 +0200 (MET DST) Message-ID: <20000831113726.36306@pauillac.inria.fr> Date: Thu, 31 Aug 2000 11:37:26 +0200 From: Xavier Leroy To: Julian Assange Cc: caml-list@inria.fr Subject: Re: ICFP'00 programming contest References: <20000822115640.46767@pauillac.inria.fr> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.89.1 In-Reply-To: ; from Julian Assange on Thu, Aug 31, 2000 at 12:34:50AM +1100 Sender: weis@pauillac.inria.fr > How'd you go? This was an excellent multi-dimensional test of rapid > software design, but the juding criteria seems somewhat arbitary. You can see our entry at http://caml.inria.fr/icfp00-contest/, including some cool test images. The topic (ray tracing) wasn't exactly our cup or tea, but we had a big team (7 persons) that self-organized rather efficiently along the "surgical team" model, and fortunately included one excellent mathematician who zipped through all the 3D geometric nonsense with amazing speed. We'll see how it goes in a few weeks... - Xavier Leroy