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ICFP 2007 missed by slashdot ?? 0

Submitted by achten on Thursday July 19 2007, @08:11PM

achten writes "Looks like slashdot has missed the annual news item about ICFP 2007. Surely there is nothing I can add to the glory of this contest by writing my own opinion here. So, everybody knows what it is. Details on the year 2007 contest are on ICFP contest page"

ICFP Programming Contest about to start-> 0

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mrchebas

on Wednesday July 18 2007, @10:01AM

mrchebas writes "The Tenth Annual ICFP Programming Contest is about to begin (countdown page)! As in the previous nine editions, you have 72 hours (starting July 20, 12:00 noon CEST) to show that your favorite programming language (or your team) is better than all others! The ICFP Programming Contest is organised as part of the International Conference on Functional Programming in the hopes of showing off functional programming, but contestants can use any language(s) they like. Previous winners have included Cilk, OCaml (3x), Haskell (3x), C++ and 2D. Previous problems have ranged from programming intelligent ants to cracking the secrets of an ancient civilization. This year's contest seems to have something to do with visitors from outer space."
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10th ICFP Programming Contest Starts July 20th-> 0

Submitted by

antientropic

on Thursday July 05 2007, @06:48AM

antientropic writes "Registration is now open for the Tenth Annual ICFP Programming Contest, which runs for 72 hours starting July 20, 12:00 (noon) CEST. As in the previous nine editions, this is your chance to show that your favorite programming language (or your team) is better than all others! The ICFP Programming Contest is organised as part of the International Conference on Functional Programming in the hopes of showing off functional programming, but contestants can use any language(s) they like. Previous winners have included Cilk, OCaml (3x), Haskell (3x), C++ and 2D. Previous problems have ranged from programming intelligent ants to cracking the secrets of an ancient civilization. This year's contest seems to have something to do with visitors from outer space."
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ICFP Contest Registration Opens-> 0

Submitted by

jefu

on Monday July 02 2007, @11:55AM

jefu writes "One of the most fun (and most difficult) programming contests held, the ICFP Programming Contest is now open for registration. The contest itself will last from July 20 to July 23. Problems tend to be (um) difficult and will often take most of the contest period to solve well. Past problems (links to previous contest sites are available on this years web site) have ranged from building a raytracer to building a program to optimize an odd HTML like markup language (and more).

Even if you don't compete, just thinking about the problems is worthwhile and often quite instructive."
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