Re: [activities] Re: [SLUG] July SLUG Monthly Meeting — this Friday

Erik de Castro Lopo wrote:

> Sridhar Dhanapalan wrote:
> 
> > As seen in the announcement, we don't have a speaker for the In-Depth
> > this month. We understand it's very late notice, but we'd be eternally
> > grateful if someone could step forward to help the SLUG community out.
> 
> If you're desperate I can whip something up.
> 
> Last week at FP-Syd, Ben Lipmeier from ANU Canberra spoke about
> his entry to the


Abstract:

    ICFP Programming Contest 2008 Redux
    by Erik de Castro Lpoo

Each year, there is a programming contest as part of the International
Conference on Functional Programming. The 2008 contest was held two
weeks ago and the winner of the contest will be announced at the
conference itself in Canada in September.

This talk will introduce the ICFP, the competition and look at the
programming task that was set this year. Although I didn't actually
enter the competition I have written some code to solve the problem
and will demonstrate that during the talk.

Much of the inspiration for this talk (and the slides) comes from a
talk given by Ben Lippmeier from Canberra's ANU at FP-Syd.





Erik
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