With great excitement,
Portland State University
and the
University of Chicago
has announced the 11th annual International Conference on
Functional Programming (ICFP) Programming Contest to be held
from July 11th to July 14th, 2008. If you're not familiar
with the contest, it is one of the most advanced and
prestigious programming contests. It is a good chance to show
off your programming skills, your favorite languages and
tools, and your ability to work as a team as you tackle these
hard problems. What's great about this is that you can have a
team consisting of one or more people, from any part of the
world, and with any programming language you so choose. The
contest will begin at noon (PDT) on July 11th and all entries
must be received by the organizers by July 14th at noon
(PDT).
To me, this is a much more interesting than the
International Obfuscated C Contest
because we're actually trying to solve a problem, let alone in
any language we so choose.
Years Past
In years past, there have been some pretty interesting
contests. Last year's contest was an interesting one to help
find a DNA prefix to help an alien, who was dropped onto Earth
from an interstellar garbage collector, survive with the new
climate. And the year before that was to analyze an ancient
codex and universal machine. The list of previous contests
can be found at the
contest site.
This time around, it'd be great to see a few teams submit with
F#!
