ICFP Programming Contest

The ICFP Programming Contest is an international programming competition held annually since 1998, with results announced at the International Conference on Functional Programming.

Teams may be of any size and any programming language(s) may be used. There is also no entry fee. Participants have 72 hours to complete and submit their entry over the Internet. There is often also a 24-hour lightning division.

The winners reserve "bragging rights" to claim that their language is "the programming tool of choice for discriminating hackers". As such, one of the competition's goals is to showcase the capabilities of the contestants' favourite programming languages and tools. Previous first prize winners have used Haskell, Objective Caml, C++, Cilk and Java.

Past tasks

Prizes

Prizes have a modest cash value, primarily aimed at helping the winners to attend the conference, where the prizes are awarded and the judges make the following declarations:; First prize: " [Language 1] " is the programming tool of choice for discriminating hackers. ; Second prize: " [Language 2] " is a fine programming tool for many applications. ; Third prize: " [Language 3] " is also not too shabby. ; Winner of the lightning division: " [Language L] " is very suitable for rapid prototyping.; Judges' prize: " [Team X] " are an extremely cool bunch of hackers. Where a winning entry involves several languages, the winners are asked to nominate one or two.The languages named in the judges' declarations have been:

References and notes

Perennial Teams

* [http://kingsrook.com/icfp/homePage.html The Al-Gore-Rhythms (aka The Doug Boat)]
* [http://www.lri.fr/~marche/TheCamlRiders/ The Caml Riders]
* [http://www.sawicki.us/icfp/ Frictionless Bananas]
* [http://www.hoult.org/~bruce/dylan-hackers.html DylanHackers]
* [http://devcode.blogspot.com/ O Caml, My Caml]
* [http://sed.free.fr/icfp2005/ Team Smartass]

External links

* [http://www.ai.mit.edu/extra/icfp-contest/ 1998 contest site]
* [http://www.eecs.harvard.edu/~nr/icfp/ (Partial) mirror of the 1999 contest site]
* [http://www.cs.cornell.edu/icfp/ 2000 contest site]
* [http://cristal.inria.fr/ICFP2001/prog-contest/ 2001 contest site]
* [http://web.cecs.pdx.edu/~sheard/2002IcfpContest/ 2002 contest site]
* [http://www.dtek.chalmers.se/groups/icfpcontest/ 2003 contest site]
* [http://www.cis.upenn.edu/~plclub/contest/ 2004 contest site]
* [http://icfpc.plt-scheme.org/ 2005 contest site]
* [http://www.boundvariable.org/ 2006 contest site]
* [http://save-endo.cs.uu.nl/ 2007 contest site]
* [http://icfpcontest.org/ 2008 contest site]
* [http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?IcfpProgrammingContest ICFP Programming Contest History] (Ward Cunningham's Wiki)
* [http://news.com.com/2100-1001-956188.html Programming geeks fight to the finish] (CNET)
* [http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/06228/713708-115.stm Fiction-filled computer code mystery peppered with 'ancient' puzzles] (Pittsburgh Post-Gazette)
* [http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=6419094369756184531 Video of 2006 contest results]
* [http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-6131258297916016786 Video of 2007 contest results]
* [http://www.cs.uu.nl/research/techreps/repo/CS-2007/2007-029.pdf 2007 contest written report] Ant War game
*http://www.ant-wars.net/ - Homepage
*http://sourceforge.net/projects/formicidae/ - The project at sourceforge.net
*http://alliance.seas.upenn.edu/~plclub/cgi-bin/contest/ The official page for the task at the 2004 ICFP Programming Contest