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[Rich Morin <rdm@cfcl.com>]

FYI...

The Third Annual ICFP Programming Contest
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Contest Overview

On Saturday, August 26, 2000 at 5PM EST a challenge task will be posted
on the Internet and mailed to all registered participants. Teams will
have 72 hours to implement a program to perform this task and submit
this program to the contest judges.   (Unlike last year, we will not
have a "lightning division".)

Although the precise task chosen will not be revealed until the contest
begins, algorithmic cleverness matters. Performance may matter.
Programming languages that help programmers to build complex systems
quickly may allow contestants to attempt particularly sophisticated 
implementations in the 72 hours allotted for programming.

This programming contest is being conducted by ICFP, which implies a
context of functional programming. However, rather than debate the
definition of a "functional programming language," we will allow
submitted programs to be written in any language whatsoever, as long
as it has an implementation for Pentium PCs running Linux (Red Hat 
6.2). Previous winning teams used languages such as Cilk and Ocaml. 
Mixing
languages is entirely acceptable; perhaps you will use the new H/Direct
tool to create the ultimate mix of Haskell and C++.
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