The programs have to be able to run on their PC running RedHat 7.1, which has Perl 5.6.0 installed and listed on their system spec page. Unfortunately they also have the RedHat 7.x "broken" gcc 2.96, which is almost funny because the GNU people haven't released that version yet.

A little more info for those who are impatient, as that site is disorganized to an artistic extreme. The contests so far have been:

• 2000 - A functional ray tracing program that implements a fairly robust command grammar (2 Perl entries)
• 1999 - A computer game A.I. state machine optimizer (? Perl entries)
• 1998 - A program that plays pousse, a variant of tic-tac-toe (3 Perl entries)

By the way, what the heck is Caml?

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