Re: ICFP Programming Contest

2003-06-18 Thread Ketil Z. Malde
John Hughes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > ICFP Programming Contest > > > There are just ten days to go to the sixth ICFP Programming Contest! This *is* announced to all relevant groups (as in comp.lang.*, at least)? -kzm -- If I haven't seen further, it is by standing

Re: ICFP programming contest

2003-01-03 Thread Pixel
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Michael Hobbs writes: > > 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? > > Is there a URL for the results

RE: ICFP programming contest

1999-10-05 Thread Simon Peyton-Jones
> I would be interested in hearing from other contestants about how they > think their programming language helped (or didn't help) them solve > the problem. What language features were most helpful? Did anything > particular get in the way? How much code did solutions take in other > languages

Re: ICFP programming contest

1999-09-17 Thread Lennart Augustsson
Reginald Meeson wrote: > >Lennart Augustsson wrote: > > > >>... > > > >Ooops, I miscounted. It's 376 lines of Haskell; still 137 in the optimizer. > >(Not much productivity, just 1 line/minute.) > > > > It appears Lennart is exercising his well-deserved bragging rights. :^) I've not earned any

Re: ICFP programming contest

1999-09-17 Thread Lennart Augustsson
Lennart Augustsson wrote: > > 547 lines of Haskell, 137 of those line is the "optimizer", the rest is > parsing, printing, etc. > The parser uses parsing combinators. > I used HBC (what else? :) Ooops, I miscounted. It's 376 lines of Haskell; still 137 in the optimizer. (Not much productivity,

Re: ICFP programming contest

1999-09-17 Thread Reginald Meeson
>Lennart Augustsson wrote: > >>... > >Ooops, I miscounted. It's 376 lines of Haskell; still 137 in the optimizer. >(Not much productivity, just 1 line/minute.) > It appears Lennart is exercising his well-deserved bragging rights. :^) More power to him. Congratulations Lennart, and to all the o

Re: ICFP programming contest

1999-09-17 Thread Lennart Augustsson
Simon Peyton-Jones wrote: > > Just curious, a few questions : > > - How long was your program? > > - How did you do the parsing? with happy? > > parser combinators? ... > > - Which compiler did you use ? (Okay, i think i know ... :-)) > > - Other information you want to share with us ... > > (e

Re: ICFP programming contest

1999-09-17 Thread Manuel M. T. Chakravarty
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 to

RE: ICFP programming contest

1999-09-17 Thread Simon Peyton-Jones
> Just curious, a few questions : > - How long was your program? > - How did you do the parsing? with happy? > parser combinators? ... > - Which compiler did you use ? (Okay, i think i know ... :-)) > - Other information you want to share with us ... > (eg. - which optimization algoritm did you

Re: ICFP programming contest

1999-09-16 Thread Koen De Turck
Congratulations to LA & Si^3 ! Just curious, a few questions : - How long was your program? - How did you do the parsing? with happy? parser combinators? ... - Which compiler did you use ? (Okay, i think i know ... :-)) - Other information you want to share with us ... (eg. - which optimization

Re: ICFP programming contest

1999-09-15 Thread Lennart Augustsson
Simon Peyton-Jones wrote: > 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

RE: ICFP programming contest

1999-09-15 Thread Simon Peyton-Jones
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