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Date: Wed, 22 Sep 2004 17:41:29 -0400
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Jacob Sparre Andersen wrote:
> It is implicit (or maybe actually explicit) in the contest that it
> favours functional programming languages.

Not unlike this n.g., I think they believe that *all* contests
favor functional programming languages :-) In the last few years
we've had a ray-tracing problem, a robots wars problem, an auto
race simulation, and now battling ant colonies. I don't see any
a priori reason that these favor FP.

> I don't think it matters that much which language was used for the
> winning entries.

I know I'm happy when C++ does well.