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From: Marius Amado Alves <amado.alves@netcabo.pt>
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Subject: Re: ICFP2004 results are in
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Date: 2004-09-22T14:01:08+01:00

The *problems* are interesting, but IMO they have nothing to do with 
programming language. It is almost invariably an artificial intelligence 
problem. The success depends on the artificial intelligence method 
devised, not on the choice of programming language. (For the 2004 ants 
problem I think I would have bet on a genetic programming solution.)

Unfortunately the problems are the only interesting thing in these 
contests. The prize money is too low (specially after division by 5 or 
10 team members), the choice of programming language is a false target 
as I said, and the winners are called bad names ("discriminating 
hacker") go figure!