[Haskell-cafe] Re: [Haskell] ICFP programming contest results

Ryan Ingram ryani.spam at gmail.com
Wed Sep 24 13:29:07 EDT 2008


I've posted a summary of the results on my blog at
http://ryani.livejournal.com/18287.html

  -- ryan

2008/9/24 Rafael Gustavo da Cunha Pereira Pinto <RafaelGCPP.Linux at gmail.com>:
> Is the report available yet?
>
> Regards
>
> On Wed, Sep 24, 2008 at 13:06, Don Stewart <dons at galois.com> wrote:
>>
>> daveroundy:
>> > On Wed, Sep 24, 2008 at 1:06 AM, Malcolm Wallace
>> > <malcolm.wallace at cs.york.ac.uk> wrote:
>> > > The ICFP programming contest results presentation:
>> > > http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-4697764813432201693
>> > >
>> > > Feel free to pass on this link to any other appropriate forum.
>> >
>> > Yikes.  Haskell did pretty terribly! Anyone have an idea why, given
>> > our success in previous contests?
>> >
>> > David (speaking as someone who was traveling that weekend and didn't
>> > have time to compete)
>>
>> I would say we did OK,
>>
>> Top 10:
>>    Java, C++, Java, Haskell, Haskell, C , C++ , C , C++, C++
>>
>> So now given the size of the competition, the results are starting to
>> look more like places like topcoder or spoj, where the top entries are
>> primarily C and C++, but with a disproportionate represenation of
>> Haskell and OCaml at the top end.
>>
>> -- Don
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