Last year the problem was not too bad, but I failed because I didn't have a working linux installation and the live cd started on my notebook in the first day, but in the second no more (you had to deliver a linux binary). Two years ago there was no need to deliver a binary, but I did not have any idea how to start. This year I'll try again (in Haskell, of course), but you're right, alone it can be very hard. Nicu Ionita

-----Ursprüngliche Nachricht----- Von: haskell-cafe-bounces@haskell.org [mailto:haskell-cafe-bounces@haskell.org] Im Auftrag von Miguel Mitrofanov Gesendet: Dienstag, 23. Juni 2009 21:27 An: Rafael Gustavo da Cunha Pereira Pinto Cc: Haskell Café Betreff: Re: [Haskell-cafe] ICFP contest

Well, I can make a bit more concrete prediction.

I'll download the problem, take a look, try for a while, discover, that it's too hard to be cracked at once, and lose interest.

That sounds like a reason why I'm not participating.

On 23 Jun 2009, at 22:49, Rafael Gustavo da Cunha Pereira Pinto wrote:

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Hi,

The good folks here are really quiet about the ICFP Contest. Is anyone participating this year?

As in the previous four years, I will probably download the problem, take a look, and try for a while... Having a family don't allow me to go much further, especially when teaming up with myself!

Best regards,

Rafael Gustavo da Cunha Pereira Pinto

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Last year I teamed up with a guy at work who had no knowledge of any functional programming language whatsoever. Actually, his main dialect is C++. We ended up trying to use plain C++, but it took us almost 6 hours to put network and string decoding routines to work. I gave up mainly because in Python, Perl, or even Haskell, it would have taken me 15 minutes or so! The main problem was not C++, it was the lack of a good application framework and the time spent planning (efficient) data structures. Later we figured out that Boost could have helped us, but neither one had enough experience with the libraries to use it... This year I will try to use Haskell, then Python, on a team all by myself. I will also relax my objectives: instead of winning the contest, my goal will be to complete the task before Xmas! :-D Best regards 2009/6/24 Max Rabkin

I'm part of a fairly large team. I'm the only person on the team who's done more than Project Euler problems in Haskell, so we'll probably only use Haskell if there's a library or program that does exactly what we need for some task. Likely we'll be using Perl and Python, and C++ if there's any heavy lifting to be done.

--Max

2009/6/23 Rafael Gustavo da Cunha Pereira Pinto < RafaelGCPP.Linux@gmail.com>:

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Hi,

The good folks here are really quiet about the ICFP Contest. Is anyone participating this year?

As in the previous four years, I will probably download the problem, take a look, and try for a while... Having a family don't allow me to go much further, especially when teaming up with myself!

Best regards,

Rafael Gustavo da Cunha Pereira Pinto

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