Yeah, I saw this. It's been 8 years since then. Why shouldn't a team assemble this year?
On 4/3/07, bill lam <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Terrence Brannon wrote: > Is anyone here contemplating entering this? I would like to see a J entry > this year: FYI http://www.jsoftware.com/papers/pousse.htm <quote> The J team won the Judge's Prize in the ICFP'98 Functional Programming Contest. Here are the judges' comments on the J program: The contest judges selected the J program because we felt it was the most thought-provoking entry. In brief, it is everything the number one Cilk Pousse entry is not: * It is not parallel. * It is not even compiled -- it ran on a simple interpreter. Note that J's aggregate-data operators tend to keep execution in the "leaf" primitives of the program, so this is rather more efficient than one might imagine. * It is astoundingly brief. Not including comments and test-case "dead code," the J entry is 113 lines of code. * It is extremely functional. There is only one one loop in the whole program. J syntax allows operators such as addition to be transparently "lifted" to function domains. And yet the J entry proceeded to beat 17 compiled C entries, which we view as at least a partial testament to the productivity gains of working with a powerful notation (and a partial testament to the skill and expertise of the isi team members, of course). We felt there were several lessons in the J entry for the programming community. Like the other two prize-winners, it is a strong statement. Congratulations to the isi team! Without a doubt, "a bunch of extremely cool hackers" -- and an extremely cool programming language. <endquote> -- regards, bill ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm
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