Well, there is a real programming contest out there in which you can use
Haskell. Some of us are going to enter here, and although we aren't going
to use Haskell (hbc), it would be interesting to compare the Haskell
entries to others.
-Andy
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From: Vivek Khera <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent-to: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Dated: Mon, 01 Nov 1993 10:54:53 -0500
Subject: Announcing the Fourth Annual Duke Internet Programming Contest
The following announcement is being posted to several newsgroups on
Usenet, as well as being directly e-mailed to about 400 people who
have either specifically asked for it or who have previously expressed
some form of interest in the contest.
This note is the only mail you will get about this year's contest
unless you specifically respond to this message. If you do not wish
to have anything to do with this year's contest, please just disregard
this message. If you tell your friends about this, please send them
the entire announcement below.
Thanks.
v.
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Vivek Khera, Gradual Student/Systems Guy Department of Computer Science
Internet: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Box 90129
RIPEM/PGP/MIME spoken here Durham, NC 27708-0129 (919)660-6528
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A N N O U N C I N G
The Fourth Annual Internet
P R O G R A M M I N G C O N T E S T
On the evening of Thursday, November 18, 1993, members of the Duke
University Department of Computer Science will sponsor the Fourth
Internet Programming Contest, similar in style to the ACM programming
contests, but taking place over the Internet. The contest involves
teams of programmers solving a set of problems with a single computer.
The team that solves the most problems in the allotted time wins the
contest (similar to the usual ACM programming contest rules).
We want to encourage everyone to participate. This is just for fun
(i.e., there are no prizes, except bragging rights). To this end, based
on comments received from last year's contest, we have endeavored to make
the problem set cover a broad range in level of problem difficulty.
Although we cannot guarantee it, we expect that a person with at least
two introductory programming courses should be able to solve at least one
problem. Of course we will attempt to include problems that will
challenge even the most expert of programmers.
New this year: many new programming languages are supported. We will
accept program submissions in C, C++, Objective C, Pascal, FORTRAN,
Scheme, Haskell, Perl, and Icon. Other languages will be considered for
inclusion through November 10, so if you would like to participate using
another language, please contact us.
Previous year's problem sets are available for anonymous ftp from the
host cs.duke.edu in the directory dist/misc/acm_contest. There are three
files: problems90.tar.Z, problems91.tar.Z, and problems92.tar.Z. This
year's problems will be made available some time after November 19.
Key information about our contest:
o Thursday, November 18, 1993, from 6 PM to 9 PM Eastern Standard Time.
(you will need to be ready at least a half-hour ahead of time).
Individual team registration begins about one hour prior to the contest.
o All teams will work at their own site, and submit solutions and
clarification requests to the judges at Duke via email. We expect
that participants have a fast e-mail connection: Anything more than
about a 15 minute delay will put your team at a disadvantage.
o Preregistration is necessary for any interested SITE; individual
teams at each site may register at the start of the contest.
o Sites should preregister by sending mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
BEFORE Tuesday November 16. There should be a *single* contact person
at each site who can install our software (three /bin/sh scripts) and
coordinate local teams (as many teams as you want.) The individual
teams will register at the start of the contest. Please fill out
the form below to register your site.
o You may use any Unix machine, but programs must be written in
either Classic C, ANSI C, C++, Pascal, FORTRAN, Haskell, Perl, Icon,
or Scheme. We will use the following versions of the compilers or
interpreters on a SPARCstation running SunOS 4.1.3:
Language Compiler & Version
-------- ------------------
C gcc 2.5.0
C++ gcc 2.5.0
Objective-C gcc 2.5.0
Pascal Sun Pascal 2.1
FORTRAN Sun FORTRAN 1.4
Scheme scm 4c5 (Revised^4 Scheme interpreter)
Haskell hbc
Perl perl 4.036 (interpreter)
Icon icont 8.10 (interpreter)
o Maximum of four people per team, and only one keyboard/display per
team.
o Three divisions for scoring purposes:
1. novice
2. expert single (teams with only one member)
3. expert team
There will be a subset of problems for which only novice teams will be
given credit, and a subset of the problems for which only expert teams
will be credited. So, for instance, if there were 4 problems in the
contest, problem 1 might be restricted to the expert teams, problem 2
might be restricted to the novice teams. All teams would be scored
on the remaining problems.
o Three to eight problems, posed in English.
o Honesty of all participants is assumed.
o Specific rules and logistics will be sent to the official contact
person for each site approximately one week prior to the contest.
Last year's contest consisted of 6 problems, and had nearly 300 teams
participating from around the globe.
We look forward to having another great turnout this year.
Contacts:
Vick Khera [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Owen Astrachan [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Note that Email address should be a valid Internet address, so I can send
you mail. Also, please don't modify the form itself, as it is
automatically processed (leading blanks or other characters inserted by
the "reply" function of mail or news are acceptable). If your site
doesn't have a name, or you don't wish to provide it, please substitute
your geographic location, so we know generally where you are.
example of properly filled out form:
Site Contact Name: Vick Khera
Email address: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Site Name: Duke University CS Department, Durham, NC
Improperly filled out pre-registration forms will most likely be ignored.
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DIPC SITE REGISTRATION FORM
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Site Contact Name:
Email address:
Site Name:
E-mail this form to [EMAIL PROTECTED] prior to November 16, 1993.
Additional information will be sent to you approximately one week
prior to the contest date.
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