According to the wayback machine, that task.html page has always been a 404 page:
https://web.archive.org/web/*/http://www.jsoftware.com/www.ai.mit.edu/extra/icfp-contest/task.html (You can select any calendar instance and then scroll through the others using the arrow nav buttons at the top of the page.) However, http://www.ai.mit.edu/extra/icfp-contest/task.html was at one point a page about the icfp pousse task. For example: https://web.archive.org/web/20011114210720/http://www.ai.mit.edu/extra/icfp-contest/task.html -- Raul On Wed, Apr 13, 2016 at 10:43 PM, Roger Hui <[email protected]> wrote: > Sorry, I don't know what if anything can be done about the dead links > (other than removing them). > > Perhaps you can infer what the task was from the code? It'd be a good > indicator of how clearly the code was written. > > > > On Wed, Apr 13, 2016 at 7:27 PM, Rob Hodgkinson <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Thanks Roger, hadn’t seen this article before. >> >> I note 3 dead links in the article (the last one of less interest), but >> glad to see the code links are valid !! Thanks. >> >> An MIT URL which seems to no longer exist and little we can do about it: >> http://www.ai.mit.edu/extra/icfp-contest/index.html >> >> A jsoftware URL that is invalid, do you know if that link can be recovered >> (it describes the contest ‘task’) ? >> http://www.jsoftware.com/www.ai.mit.edu/extra/icfp-contest/task.html >> >> A less interesting link to Gaertner via a mirror: >> http://www.jsoftware.com/extras/euromirror.htm >> >> Thanks, Rob >> >> >> > On 14 Apr 2016, at 11:55 AM, Roger Hui <[email protected]> >> wrote: >> > >> > Olin Shivers, one of the co-authors of the paper, was a judge in the ICFP >> > '98 programming contest. http://www.jsoftware.com/papers/pousse.htm >> > >> >> ---------------------------------------------------------------------- >> For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm
