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Report On The Tenth ICFPProgramming Contest

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_Eelco Dolstra, Jur Hage, Bastiaan Heeren, Stefan Holdermans, Johan Jeuring, Andres Löh, Arie Middelkoop, Alexey Rodriguez, John van Schie, Clara Löh. Report on the Tenth ICFP Programming Contest . To appear in the Proceedings of the International Conference on Functional Programming, 2008._

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&#8217;s task was to reverse engineer the DNA of a stranded 
alien life form to enable it to survive on our planet. The alien&#8217;s DNA 
had to be modified by means of a prefix that modified its meaning 
so that the alien&#8217;s phenotype would approximate a given &#8220;ideal&#8221; 
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++. 

*Paper*: [[%ATTACHURL%/icfp71-heeren.pdf][pdf]]

-- Main.AlexeyRodriguez - 19 Jul 2008

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