[MLton-user] 2006 ICFP Programming Contest

[Tom 7]

Hey mlton users,

This year CMU is organizing the annual ICFP Programming Contest, to be 
held on July 21-24. We think it's going to be really fun, and it's 
definitely going to be a lot different from previous contests. The 
competition is held on the internet, there is no registration fee, and you 
can use any languages and resources at your disposal, so we hope you'll 
enter. In particular we hope some teams will enter with SML--though O'Caml 
has won several times, a team using SML has never won (nor placed, as far 
as we recall). We've used it for our entries in the past, but of course 
we're ineligible this year! ;)

I've attached our announcement below.

  - Tom


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Language lovers:

Registration is now open for the 9th Annual ICFP Programming Contest!

    http://icfpcontest.org/


The contest, associated with the International Conference on
Functional Programming, will be held on the weekend of July 21-24. The
contest task will be released at noon EDT on Friday, and entries will
be accepted until noon EDT on Monday. Registration is free and open to
all. Teams may participate from any location, and may use any
programming language(s). Last year, 360 participants formed 161 teams
from 26 countries.

Prize money totaling $1750 US will be awarded to help defray the costs
of travel to the conference for the winners and for small cash prizes.
In addition, the winners of the contest will receive bragging rights
for the programming language of their choice. This makes the contest a
popular avenue for demonstrating the superiority of a favorite
language, or for exercising an experimental tool.

Though the specifics are secret until the contest begins, we promise
that this year's task will be very different from past competitions.
This year's theme is "computational archaeolinguistics."

Stay tuned for more information as the contest approaches!

  - 2006 Contest Organizers
    CMU Principles of Programming Group
    icfpcontest-organizers@lists.andrew.cmu.edu