Just took a look at the results for the ICFP contest. Am I correct in
assuming that "LA" stands for Lennart Augustsson and that "Si^3" stands
for Simon Marlow, Simon Peyton-Jones, Sigbjorn Finne?
If so, congratulations guys! It looks like you topped them all, with
lightning entries to boot! (Well, that OCaml entry is close on your
heels, but it wasn't a lightning entry.)
I found it particularly interesting that there were 11 C entrants, but
the majority of them (8) dropped out because they segfaulted, or they
parsed incorrectly, or they had invalid transformations. One of the
remaining C programs actually increased the size of the NPC. (They would
have been better off simply submitting `cat'. :) Compare to 2 out of 6
Haskell entries that dropped out because of invalid transformations
(logic errors).
I dabbled with creating my own entry, but realizing that I was probably
competing against hard-core compiler writers, I didn't have much heart.
;-)
- Michael Hobbs
