[mercury-users] 4th place
Peter Ross
peter.ross at miscrit.be
Fri Sep 22 00:37:54 AEDT 2000
>From message posted by Julian Assange to comp.lang.functional:
A few hours ago Xavier Leroy sent me this:
Here are the official results for the ICFP 2000 programming contest:
First prize: the PLClub team from University of Pennsylvania
(J. Vouillon, H. Hosoya, V. Gapeyev, E. Sumii). Language used: OCaml.
Second prize: the Camls 'R Us team from INRIA Rocquencourt
(S. Ailleret, P. Cuoq, D. Doligez, R. Harley, F. Le Fessant, X. Leroy,
A. Schmitt). Language used: OCaml.
Third place: the Galois Connection team from the start-up company with
the same name (J. Launchbury and 4 other persons whose names I
couldn't write down). Language used: Haskell.
Fourth place: a team of 13 distributed among Australia, Belgium and the
UK, including F. Henderson. Language used: Mercury.
Judge's prize for the best sample image: a chess game by team Helikopter
(A. Rossberg, L. Kornstaed) from U. Saarlandes (I think).
There were 39 entries, with teams ranging from 1 to 13 persons.
Breakdown by language used:
C, C++ 7
Clean 1
Dylan 1
Eiffel 1
Haskell 6
Java 6
Mercury 1
ML 9
Perl 2
Python 1
Scheme 2
Smalltalk 2
Not a bad year for OCaml. And my personal congratulations to Jérôme
Vouillon and his friends for a truly outstanding performance!
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