functional programming contest

[Tom Pledger]

Andre W B Furtado writes:
 | I was visiting http://www.ai.mit.edu/extra/icfp-contest/ and noticed that
 | there was a functional programming contest in ICFP 98. I'd like to know if
 | there are any periodic functional progamming contests around the world, such
 | as the ACM contest for the C language.

There's been one associated with ICFP every year from 1998 onward.
Most recently:

    http://cristal.inria.fr/ICFP2001/prog-contest

(I can't get through to check that URL at the moment, but it did work
OK last July.)