Title: Department of Computer Science Seminar
Date: Wednesday, Nov. 20, 2002
Time: 4:00 pm to 5:00pm
Venue: Room N101, CSIT Building [108]
Speaker: Mr Robin Garner (Honours student, DCS at ANU) 

Description: Dead Robot Delivery Systems: The 2002 ICFP Programming Contest



                              Abstract 

For the last 5 years, the International Conference on Functional Programming (ICFP) has held a programming contest in order to test the power of
functional languages in open competition.  The 2002 contest attracted 158 entries in 21 different programming languages including Java, C, Perl and
Python as well as Haskell, Scheme and ML.  This year's problem involved writing a program that acts as a player in a multi-player robot game,
communicating with a game server via TCP/IP. 

This talk covers the history of the contest, analyses the entries and winners of this years contest, and discusses some of the interesting features of the
winning programs.  It also uses code examples from the competition entries to illustrate the strengths and weaknesses of functional languages in
problem domains not traditionally associated with them. 



URL: http://cs.anu.edu.au/lib/seminars/seminars02/dept20021120

Biography: Mr Garner is an honour student in DCS at ANU.