10th ICFP contest has begun

Posted by Leon on Friday July 11, 2008 @03:16PM
from the smlnj.org dept.

http://smlnj.org/icfp08-contest/task.html

main page here: http://www.icfpcontest.org/

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Re:10th ICFP contest has begun by henning on Friday July 11, 2008 @05:38PM (#244057)

"You submit your entry using the web form at http://icfpcontest.org/submit.php"

It's a little ironic they use PHP for a contest that is supposed to demonstrate the viability of functional programming languages.

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Re:10th ICFP contest has begun by LogicHoleFlaw on Friday July 11, 2008 @05:50PM (#244070)

Use the right tool for the job. "Functional" can have more than one meaning.

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Re:10th ICFP contest has begun by sktrdie on Friday July 11, 2008 @10:06PM (#244227)

And PHP is not even a supported language for the contest: http://www.icfpcontest.org/live-cd.html

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Re:10th ICFP contest has begun by CSchonwald on Friday July 11, 2008 @04:30PM (#243981)

maybe my sense of humor is bad, but am I correct in assuming the mars rover reference is joke?

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Re:10th ICFP contest has begun by newt0311 on Friday July 11, 2008 @04:48PM (#243994)

yes. 75 ms communication between earth and mars is physically impossible according to general relativity. Seeing as how nobody (including NASA) has found a way around this limitation, messages back and forth between earth and mars will always take on the order of minutes.

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