[Gardeners] Lisp contest

Brandon Edens brandon at cs.uri.edu
Sun Apr 23 16:16:08 CDT 2006


Instead of participating in a functional programming contest, how about
participating in one of the non-functional non-language specific programming
contests and then showing how Common Lisp and by extension functional
programming beat the competition hands down. AKA the Dylan effect?

Brandon

On Sun, Apr 23, 2006 at 11:04:57AM -0500, LeAnthony Mathews wrote:

> How about something like this:
> The ICFP Programming Contest
> http://icfpcontest.org/
> 
> Maybe we can prep as a team with some practice problems before the big
> one.  Use GOTO meeting or google chat to group work. etc..
> 
> On 4/22/06, Pablo Barenbaum <foones at gmail.com> wrote:
> > I had the idea that some kind of "Lisp contest" could be
> > good for getting the community together.
> >
> > The rest is left as an exercise to the interested reader. ;-)
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