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ICFP 2003 Programming Contest Starts June 28th 33

Posted by timothy from the warm-up-your-swedish dept.
mvw writes "The web pages for the ICFP 2003 programming contest are online! It starts Saturday, 28th June 0:00 GMT. As the time zone hints, this year it is organized in Sweden." From the rules page: "All programmers are invited to enter the contest, either individually or in teams. The contest offers direct, head-to-head comparison of language technology and programming skill. We have a range of prizes for the winners: cash awards, books, invitations to the conference for students, and, of course, unlimited bragging rights. The prizes will be awarded at ICFP 2003 in Uppsala this August."
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  • Greenwich = Sweden? (Score:3, Interesting)

    by brejc8 ( 223089 ) * on Wednesday June 25, 2003 @07:45AM (#6292914) Homepage Journal
    It starts Saturday, 28th June 0:00 GMT. As the time zone hints, this year it is organized in Sweden.

    GMT, (Greenwich Mean Time [greenwichmeantime.com]) -> Sweden?
    Greenwich is in Sweden?
    • Good point... I thought Sweeden was with the rest of Europe at +1 GMT
      • The formulation was weak, you're right. The original version was: please note the Time Zone. :)

        Regards,
        Marc

      • Good point... I thought Sweeden was with the rest of Europe at +1 GMT.

        I don't quite follow what you mean with "rest of Europe", but if you're talking about CET (Central European Time) which Sweden also belongs to it's currently GMT+2 (due to daylight-savings time).

        Even Greenwich is currently GMT+1, because GMT does not make daylight savings changes...

  • Isn't this a month early? (Score:3, Interesting)

    by FroMan ( 111520 ) on Wednesday June 25, 2003 @07:57AM (#6292961) Homepage Journal
    I thought they usually had the contest late July and early August. I seem to remember last year not being able to look at the contest since it was my anniversery that week-end.

    Personlly I look forward to IOCCC, much more interesting competition. But that contest hasn't been open for nearly two years now. :-(
    • I thought they usually had the contest late July and early August.

      Me too. For better organizing my schedule this year, I tried to find out the approximate date of the contest months ago already. But t seems my mail never reached the final contest organizing people, or they never answered.

      Only thanks to a friendly computer scientist, to whom I wrote first and who has only remotely to do with the contest, I found out about the date .. just three days in advance.

      So I hope next year the date will be much

    • They do some incredible and brilliant things in the IOCCC, but I can't help thinking that deliberately obfuscating C is immoral somehow :P

      What I like about the ICFP is the lack of restrictions. You can solve the problem using whatever tools and programming languages you like, as an individual or as part of a team. I don't think there are any other major programming contests like that.


      • Some wise man is going to make a RPPC (Readable Perl Programming Contest) some day.

        I think obfusicatin C is a cool idea of a contest. Its fun to try and figure out what other programmers come up with. And its kind of fun to try an entry out.

        What I like about the ICFP is the lack of restrictions.

        Aw heck, in the IOCCC you can solve whatever problem you want, you have to use a specific language though.

        In ICFP you have to solve their specific problem with any language you want.

        Six of one, half a doze
      • They do some incredible and brilliant things in the IOCCC, but I can't help thinking that deliberately obfuscating C is immoral somehow :P

        Some wise man is going to make a RPPC (Readable Perl Programming Contest) some day.

        I think obfusicatin C is a cool idea of a contest. Its fun to try and figure out what other programmers come up with. And its kind of fun to try an entry out.

        What I like about the ICFP is the lack of restrictions.

        Aw heck, in the IOCCC you can solve whatever problem you want, you h

  • Speculation... (Score:5, Interesting)

    by jjkivilu ( 194097 ) on Wednesday June 25, 2003 @08:05AM (#6292997) Homepage
    I wonder if the picture ("preview-fancy.jpg") on the front page is supposed to give us a small hint about what the task will concern? Something involving racing, like optimal route finding and intelligent vehicle steering/controlling?
    • The appropriate model for racing tracks tracks might be a T(o)uring machine, where you glue the tape start and end sections together. Just kidding :-)
  • Well, the mailing list seems to be down. Given the lack of posts on this topic, I doubt it's been slashdotted, but you never know. :)

  • Obligatory (Score:3, Insightful)

    by Mr. Sketch ( 111112 ) * <mister DOT sketch AT gmail DOT com> on Wednesday June 25, 2003 @09:45AM (#6293676)
    2003-06-19 18:37:54 ICFP2003 Programming Contest (developers,programming) (rejected)

    I'm just a little bitter thats all. I had the scoop on this almost a week ago, sigh.

    But on the on-topic side, I plan on participating and doing my entry in PHP, just for kicks :). If there are any other PHP programmers that would like to be on my team feel free to respond here or e-mail me, the rules don't say what the max number of people we can have on a team is.

  • Acronym (Score:5, Informative)

    by cgrawls ( 614701 ) on Wednesday June 25, 2003 @11:13AM (#6294481) Homepage
    ICFP stands for International Conference on Functional Programming. Neither the /. story nor the contest website make this clear.

    Also, interestingly, the contest allows any programming language to be entered, functional or not. Sounds like a challenge to the procedural and OO programmers out there :).
    • Many of the functional languages I know are also OO. You haven't seen weird until you have a functional object.
      • You haven't seen weird until you have a functional object.

        Bah, objects are just a poor man's closures. Or was it the other way around...

        Either way, if the people I work with could make any of their objects function properly, it would make my debugging sessions much easier! ;-)

    • Well, they could hardly call it International Conference on Dysfunctional Programming, now could they? :-)

      As for allowing any programming language, well, the programming language "SORTA" won IOCCC's best in show back in '91...

      Regards,
      --
      *Art

  • A time zone converter [timezoneconverter.com] for all your needs.

  • Timing is a bit unlucky this year. The Erlang site is not reachable right now, just days before the ICFP contest.

    Here is some info what happened:

    A few people have asked me "what's happening with Erlang.org?". I called Kent today. Seems they've moved some servers from one building to another and it's taking longer than expected to get the external network connection up again (i.e. several days). Until they do that, erlang.org, erlang.se and the mailing list all don't work.

    The UU mirror seems ok:

  • Are you kidding-Unlimited Bragging Rights? COOL! Gotta re-write the constitution... or at least make a new amendment... a24431 mailto:a24431@netscape.net

  • It has begun. (Score:3, Informative)

    by Randolpho ( 628485 ) on Friday June 27, 2003 @08:40PM (#6316669) Homepage Journal
    The contest has begun. Looks like it's best-path pathfinding.
    • Now it is over.

      Three days were not much for that task. I wasted most of the time writing tools and getting a proper implementation of the specs.

      Ideal would have been a team of 1 toolmaker, 1 tester, 1 strategy/optimizing guy, 1 coordinator. And of course more libs in the background ready for various optimization task, plus something to hack together visual editors very quickly.

      I wish I had known better ways to interface to the GIMP, it turned out to be a useful editor for me, but i only managed file base

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