[This message is sent through a WWW-Email gateway.] [The authenticity of the sender can not be validated.] [Message sent from the following machine wormhole.ctp.com - 149.44.3.33 ] [after accessing this URL http://www.dcs.gla.ac.uk/scripts/global/send_message?[EMAIL PROTECTED]+message] -- Just a short story from the less "glorious" side of the ICFP contest... the "Nederwiet" team. As you can see from the results, we're one of two Haskell teams that got rejected due to incorrect optimizations. Of course, we have some excuses: - We only had one laptop to work on. This made coding and testing difficult to do in an efficient manner. - Didn't start until saturday morning. Next time we'll start on time. - Of the two of us, only I knew Haskell. - The only optimization that we managed to do in our 15 hours of coding tried to optimize based on the value of variables in the NPC, with obviously some bugs (I found at least one the day after submitting the program that was trivial to fix). But besides the excuses, we're simply not as good as LA or Si^3. We're just poor consultants doing C, VB, and Java in day-to-day life :-) Still, we enjoyed doing this a lot, and we'll be back next year (hopefully) with "Nederwiet 2000". Also, it rekindled my interest in Hask! ! ell, and I learned a lot about functional programming just by doing this. Now if I could use Haskell on my day to day job, I'd be a lot happier. Anyway, we'll meet again next year on the next contest... -- Erik Rozendaal --
