Michael Hobbs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote,
> 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).
It is also interesting to see that _all_ programs that
dropped out in ``Round Zero: syntactic correctness'' are
written in an _untyped_ language.
Si^3 and LA, I am impressed!
Manuel
