in reply to perl not omnipotent? let's see!

For a number of years the International Conference on Functional Programming has held an annual competition. In this competition teams are asked in a very short period of time to build a the best piece of software that they can under tight time deadlines. An example was this years task to build a program that would play a variant of cops and robbers.

Any team may use any language.

Most (all?) years, some teams attempt to use Perl for this. As far as I know, Perl has never managed to place in the top 3.

That strongly suggests to me that there are some kinds of tasks which Perl is not ideal for.

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Re^2: perl not omnipotent? let's see!
by blazar (Canon) on Oct 13, 2005 at 10:52 UTC
    For a number of years the International Conference on Functional Programming has held an annual competition. In this competition teams are asked in a very short period of time to build a the best piece of software that they can under tight time deadlines.
    A link: ICFP 2005 Contest. To quote from it:
    • The judges' prize goes to Dylan Hackers. The judges are happy to proclaim that the Dylan Hackers are an extremely cool bunch of re-hackers.
    • First prize goes to KiebererAndXiaoTou. The judges are happy to proclaim that Haskell is the programming tool of choice for discriminating hackers.
    • Second prize goes to Dylan Hackers. The judges are happy to proclaim that Dylan is a fine programming tool for many applications.
    • Third prize goes to Combat-Tanteidan. The judges are happy to proclaim that Haskell is also not too shabby.

    Seems like O'Caml, winner for many years of 1st/2nd/3rd prize is now nothing but a distant memory. (Thanks, g.!!)

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