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Report on the tenth ICFP programming contest

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International Conference on Functional Programming archive
Proceeding of the 13th ACM SIGPLAN international conference on Functional programming table of contents

Victoria, BC, Canada

SESSION: Programming contest table of contents

Pages 397-408

Year of Publication: 2008

ISBN:978-1-59593-919-7

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Eelco Dolstra	Delft University of Technology, Delft, Netherlands
Jurriaan Hage	Utrecht University, Utrecht, Netherlands
Bastiaan Heeren	Open Universiteit Nederland, Heerlen, Netherlands
Stefan Holdermans	Utrecht University, Utrecht, Netherlands
Johan Jeuring	Utrecht University, Utrecht, Netherlands
Andres Löh	Utrecht University, Utrecht, Netherlands
Clara Löh	WWU Münster, Münster, Germany
Arie Middelkoop	Utrecht University, Utrecht, Netherlands
Alexey Rodriguez	Utrecht University, Utrecht, Netherlands
John van Schie	Utrecht University, Utrecht, Netherlands

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ACM: Association for Computing Machinery
SIGPLAN: ACM Special Interest Group on Programming Languages

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ACM New York, NY, USA

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ABSTRACT

The ICFP programming contest is a 72-hour contest, which attracts thousands of contestants from all over the world. In this report we describe what it takes to organise this contest, the main ideas behind the contest we organised, the task, how to solve it, how we created it, and how well the contestants did.

This year's task was to reverse engineer the DNA of a stranded alien life form to enable it to survive on our planet. The alien's DNA had to be modified by means of a prefix that modified its meaning so that the alien's phenotype would approximate a given "ideal" outcome, increasing its probability of survival. About 357 teams from 39 countries solved at least part of the contest. The language of choice for discriminating hackers turned out to be C++.

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