From: Jacob Sparre Andersen <sparre@nbi.dk>
Subject: Re: ICFP2004 results are in
Date: 22 Sep 2004 23:19:39 +0200
Date: 2004-09-22T23:19:39+02:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <pl8yb2ngr8.fsf@sparre.crs4.it> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 1095861761.260976@master.nyc.kbcfp.com
Hyman Rosen wrote:
> Marius Amado Alves wrote:
> > The *problems* are interesting, but IMO they have nothing to do
> > with programming language.
>
> Why should they?
It is implicit (or maybe actually explicit) in the contest that it
favours functional programming languages.
> Problems are problems. Anyway, Ada is intended to be a general
> purpose language, and it would gain some notoriety if it were used
> to create a successful entry.
I don't think it matters that much which language was used for the
winning entries.
> One of the rigorous standards of the contest is that entries which
> crash are immediately eliminated, so this should gave Ada a leg up,
> no?
Yes.
> > It is almost invariably an artificial intelligence problem.
>
> This is good, because it allows a broad range of implementation
> strategies.
Yes. I wouldn't quite call the problems AI-like, but they are
definitely interesting and possible to solve in many different ways.
Jacob
--
"I don't want to gain immortality in my works.
I want to gain it by not dying."
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Thread overview: 29+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-09-21 20:19 ICFP2004 results are in Martin Dowie
2004-09-22 0:15 ` Cesar Rabak
2004-09-22 3:37 ` Hyman Rosen
2004-09-22 15:08 ` Cesar Rabak
2004-09-22 15:14 ` Ed Falis
2004-09-22 17:30 ` Samuel Tardieu
2004-09-22 17:42 ` Ed Falis
2004-09-22 19:25 ` Samuel Tardieu
2004-09-22 19:31 ` Ed Falis
2004-09-22 23:32 ` Rod Chapman
2004-09-23 1:41 ` Ed Falis
2004-09-23 8:35 ` Martin Krischik
2004-09-23 13:07 ` Ed Falis
2004-09-22 23:13 ` Stephen Leake
2004-09-23 1:38 ` Ed Falis
2004-09-23 23:54 ` Stephen Leake
2004-09-23 14:15 ` Samuel Tardieu
2004-09-23 23:58 ` Stephen Leake
2004-09-24 1:33 ` Ed Falis
2004-09-22 12:04 ` Jacob Sparre Andersen
2004-09-22 12:56 ` Martin Dowie
2004-09-22 19:50 ` Jacob Sparre Andersen
2004-09-22 13:01 ` Marius Amado Alves
2004-09-22 14:02 ` Hyman Rosen
2004-09-22 21:19 ` Jacob Sparre Andersen [this message]
2004-09-22 21:41 ` Hyman Rosen
2004-09-22 14:16 ` Martin Dowie
2004-09-22 14:29 ` stephane richard
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2004-10-02 12:27 ` Andrew
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