Good guess for Si^3. And I'd bet a lot of money that LA
is Lennart. He is a demon. I nearly didn't enter because I
anticipated the shame of a team of three of us lagging way
behind Lennart, on his own, probably writing his in the gaps
between implementing a new type checker for Cayenne.
Simon
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Michael Hobbs
> Sent: Wednesday, September 15, 1999 5:05 PM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: ICFP programming contest
>
>
> 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
>
